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    SubjectRe: [PATCH] More compile warning fixes for 2.4.0
    On 9 Jan 2001, at 23:10, Linus Torvalds wrote:

    >
    >
    > On Wed, 10 Jan 2001, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
    >
    > > On Tue, Jan 09, 2001 at 01:31:35PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
    > > > don't have to worry about undocumented extensions etc.
    > >
    > > Infact I don't blame gcc maintainers for that, but the standard. Ok, minor
    > > issue.
    >
    > Yeah, and nothing we can do about it any more.. Oh, well.
    >
    > The fact is that the
    >
    > case xxx: ;
    >
    > syntax is fairly ugly, so I'd prefer the fixup patches to look more like
    >
    > case xxx:
    > /* fallthrough */ ;
    > }
    >
    > or something (or maybe just a "break" statement), just so that we don't
    > turn the poor C language into line noise (can anybody say "perl" ;)
    >
    > I have to say, I think it was Pascal had this "no semicolon needed before
    > an 'end'" rule, and I always really hated that. The C statement rules make
    > a lo tmore sense, and requiring a statement after a case statement is
    > probably a very good requirement from a language standpoint. It's just not
    > very pretty - but adding a break or a comment will at least separate out
    > the colon and the semi-colon a bit.
    >
    > Linus
    >
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    I'll redo my patch to use break; and then I'll resend it.
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