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SubjectRe: [PATCH] x86/boot: Address clang -Wimplicit-fallthrough in vsprintf()
On Fri, May 17, 2024 at 11:51:10AM +0200, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> On Thu, May 16, 2024 at 07:03:41AM -0700, Nathan Chancellor wrote:
> > After enabling -Wimplicit-fallthrough for the x86 boot code, clang
> > warns:
> >
> > arch/x86/boot/printf.c:257:3: warning: unannotated fall-through between switch labels [-Wimplicit-fallthrough]
> > 257 | case 'u':
> > | ^
> >
> > Clang is a little more pedantic than GCC, which does not warn when
> > falling through to a case that is just break or return.
>
> Is anyone fixing Clang?
>
> :-P

There was a patch to make Clang match GCC's behavior a few years ago but
I think Kees made a good argument that GCC's behavior leaves potential
bugs on the table, so that was not pursued further.

https://reviews.llvm.org/D91895#2417170

It was brought up to GCC as well but they did not want to change their
behavior:

https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=91432

Cheers,
Nathan

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