Re: [Qemu-trivial] [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] vnc: Add break statement

[Stefan Weil <sw@weilnetz.de>]

Am 25.02.2012 16:57, schrieb Andreas Färber:
> Am 25.02.2012 14:57, schrieb Stefan Weil:
>> This was not a bug, but it is not common practice to omit the break 
>> statement
>> from the last case statement before an empty default case.
>>
>> Any change of the default case would introduce a bug.
>>
>> This was reported as a warning by splint.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Stefan Weil <sw@weilnetz.de>
>> ---
>> ui/vnc-enc-hextile-template.h | 1 +
>> 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/ui/vnc-enc-hextile-template.h 
>> b/ui/vnc-enc-hextile-template.h
>> index b9f9f5e..a7310e1 100644
>> --- a/ui/vnc-enc-hextile-template.h
>> +++ b/ui/vnc-enc-hextile-template.h
>> @@ -175,6 +175,7 @@ static void CONCAT(send_hextile_tile_, 
>> NAME)(VncState *vs,
>> /* we really don't have to invalidate either the bg or fg
>> but we've lost the old values. oh well. */
>> }
>> + break;
>> default:
>
> Doesn't that require a fallthrough comment for other tools then?
>
> Andreas

It was a fall through (so a comment would have satisfied static code
analyzers), but with the added 'break' it no longer is.

As I tried to explain in the commit message, a fall through would
not be reasonable in this special case.

Cheers, Stefan