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    SubjectRe: [PATCH] x86/syscalls: Mark expected switch fall-throughs
    > I have no idea who came up with that brilliant idea of parsing comments in
    > the code. It's so simple to make this parser completely fail that it's not

    Stephen Johnson (author of the V7 portable C compiler), which is where
    it's from (the lint tool). He also wrote yacc so he does know a bit about
    parsers 8).

    > even funny anymore.

    The notation in question has been standard in tools like lint since the
    end of the 1970s

    Alan

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