From: Alan Cox <gnomes@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: "Gustavo A. R. Silva" <garsilva@embeddedor.com>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
x86@kernel.org, LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86/syscalls: Mark expected switch fall-throughs
Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2017 19:00:32 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20171128190032.2b1fa464@alans-desktop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.2.20.1711281933170.2222@nanos>
> 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
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-11-28 19:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-11-27 23:52 [PATCH] x86/syscalls: Mark expected switch fall-throughs Gustavo A. R. Silva
2017-11-28 13:49 ` Thomas Gleixner
2017-11-28 18:05 ` Gustavo A. R. Silva
2017-11-28 18:10 ` Thomas Gleixner
2017-11-28 18:17 ` Thomas Gleixner
2017-11-28 18:22 ` Gustavo A. R. Silva
2017-11-28 18:27 ` Thomas Gleixner
2017-11-28 18:35 ` Thomas Gleixner
2017-11-28 18:45 ` Thomas Gleixner
2017-11-28 18:53 ` Gustavo A. R. Silva
2017-11-28 19:48 ` Thomas Gleixner
2017-11-28 19:00 ` Alan Cox [this message]
2017-11-28 19:10 ` Linus Torvalds
2017-11-28 19:59 ` Joe Perches
2017-11-28 20:08 ` Thomas Gleixner
2017-11-28 20:34 ` Kees Cook
2017-11-28 20:37 ` Gustavo A. R. Silva
2017-11-29 1:07 ` Joe Perches
2017-11-29 8:20 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2017-11-28 20:11 ` Thomas Gleixner
2017-11-28 20:25 ` Gustavo A. R. Silva
2017-11-28 21:25 ` Thomas Gleixner
2017-11-29 15:10 ` Gustavo A. R. Silva
2017-11-29 15:14 ` Thomas Gleixner
2017-11-30 0:21 ` Kees Cook
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2019-01-29 23:56 Gustavo A. R. Silva
2019-01-30 0:14 ` Thomas Gleixner
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