Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 28 Nov 2017 19:00:32 +0000 | From | Alan Cox <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] x86/syscalls: Mark expected switch fall-throughs |
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> 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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