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From: Yao Qi <qiyaoltc@gmail.com>
To: Tom Tromey <tom@tromey.com>
Cc: "gdb-patches@sourceware.org" <gdb-patches@sourceware.org>
Subject: Re: [RFA 1/3] Fix "fall through" comments
Date: Wed, 28 Sep 2016 21:51:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAH=s-PPkWgxefpzPXtQmdVC79-vWAKso+GDsVyyCf4jbA-pbgA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8760phcamm.fsf@tromey.com>

On Tue, Sep 27, 2016 at 10:10 PM, Tom Tromey <tom@tromey.com> wrote:
>>>>>> "Yao" == Yao Qi <qiyaoltc@gmail.com> writes:
>
> Yao> clang has -Wimplicit-fallthrough as well, but warnings are suppressed in
> Yao> a different way.  Do we need to suppress warnings generated by both gcc
> Yao> and clang?
>
> On my machine, clang won't build gdb.  From memory there was at least
> some issue compiling .c files in c++ mode, but I think there were other
> problems as well.

We can use option '-x c++' to suppress the warnings, but you are right, there
are some other problems, like some warning options are unknown to clang.

>
> If clang support is desired, then yes, the correct approach is to
> replace the fall-through comments with a new attribute.
>

At least, I don't think of a reason that we don't support clang.  clang(++)
support is not very good, but we shouldn't make it worse, IMO.  I am open
to people's thoughts.

-- 
Yao (齐尧)

  reply	other threads:[~2016-09-28 18:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-09-27 18:16 [RFA 0/3] Fix some -Wimplicit-fallthrough warnings Tom Tromey
2016-09-27 18:16 ` [RFA 1/3] Fix "fall through" comments Tom Tromey
2016-09-27 21:48   ` Yao Qi
2016-09-27 21:53     ` Tom Tromey
2016-09-28 21:51       ` Yao Qi [this message]
2016-09-28 21:58         ` Tom Tromey
2016-09-30 21:09           ` Yao Qi
2016-09-27 18:16 ` [RFA 2/3] Add missing ATTRIBUTE_NORETURNs Tom Tromey
2016-09-28  7:28   ` Yao Qi
2016-09-28 17:40     ` Tom Tromey
2016-09-28 17:41       ` Yao Qi
2016-09-27 18:52 ` [RFA 3/3] Fix "obvious" fall-through warnings Tom Tromey

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