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From:   Miguel Ojeda <miguel.ojeda.sandonis@gmail.com>
Date:   Thu, 1 Aug 2019 22:26:29 +0200
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Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] compiler_attributes.h: Add 'fallthrough' pseudo
 keyword for switch/case use
To:     "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
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On Thu, Aug 1, 2019 at 10:10 PM <hpa@zytor.com> wrote:
>
> I'm not disagreeing... I think using a macro makes sense.

It is either a macro or waiting for 5+ years (while we keep using the
comment style) :-)

In case it helps to make one's mind about whether to go for it or not,
I summarized the advantages and a few other details in the patch I
sent in October:

  https://github.com/ojeda/linux/commit/668f011a2706ea555987e263f609a5deba9c7fc4

It would be nice, however, to discuss whether we want __fallthrough or
fallthrough. The former is consistent with the rest of compiler
attributes and makes it clear it is not a keyword, the latter is
consistent with "break", "goto" and "return", as Joe's patch explains.

Cheers,
Miguel