From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Date: Thu, 26 Nov 2020 08:33:24 +1100 (AEDT) From: Finn Thain In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: <202011201129.B13FDB3C@keescook> <20201120115142.292999b2@kicinski-fedora-pc1c0hjn.dhcp.thefacebook.com> <202011220816.8B6591A@keescook> <9b57fd4914b46f38d54087d75e072d6e947cb56d.camel@HansenPartnership.com> <0147972a72bc13f3629de8a32dee6f1f308994b5.camel@HansenPartnership.com> <20201123130348.GA3119@embeddedor> <8f5611bb015e044fa1c0a48147293923c2d904e4.camel@HansenPartnership.com> <202011241327.BB28F12F6@keescook> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Subject: Re: [Bridge] [Intel-wired-lan] [PATCH 000/141] Fix fall-through warnings for Clang List-Id: Linux Ethernet Bridging List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Nick Desaulniers Cc: alsa-devel@alsa-project.org, bridge@lists.linux-foundation.org, target-devel@vger.kernel.org, Greg KH , linux-iio@vger.kernel.org, linux-wireless , Jonathan Cameron , linux-fbdev@vger.kernel.org, dri-devel , "Gustavo A. R. Silva" , James Bottomley , linux-ide@vger.kernel.org, dm-devel@redhat.com, keyrings@vger.kernel.org, linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org, GR-everest-linux-l2@marvell.com, wcn36xx@lists.infradead.org, linux-i3c@lists.infradead.org, linux1394-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, linux-afs@lists.infradead.org, drbd-dev@lists.linbit.com, devel@driverdev.osuosl.org, linux-cifs@vger.kernel.org, rds-devel@oss.oracle.com, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org, linux-rdma@vger.kernel.org, oss-drivers@netronome.com, linux-atm-general@lists.sourceforge.net, ceph-devel@vger.kernel.org, amd-gfx list , linux-stm32@st-md-mailman.stormreply.com, cluster-devel@redhat.com, usb-storage@lists.one-eyed-alien.net, linux-mmc@vger.kernel.org, coreteam@netfilter.org, intel-wired-lan@lists.osuosl.org, linux-input@vger.kernel.org, Miguel Ojeda , Jakub Kicinski , linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org, virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org, netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org, linux-media@vger.kernel.org, Kees Cook , selinux@vger.kernel.org, linux-arm-msm , intel-gfx@lists.freedesktop.org, linux-sctp@vger.kernel.org, reiserfs-devel@vger.kernel.org, linux-geode@lists.infradead.org, linux-block@vger.kernel.org, linux-gpio@vger.kernel.org, op-tee@lists.trustedfirmware.org, linux-mediatek@lists.infradead.org, xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org, nouveau@lists.freedesktop.org, linux-hams@vger.kernel.org, Nathan Chancellor , linux-can@vger.kernel.org, Linux ARM , linux-hwmon@vger.kernel.org, "maintainer:X86 ARCHITECTURE (32-BIT AND 64-BIT)" , linux-watchdog@vger.kernel.org, GR-Linux-NIC-Dev@marvell.com, Linux Memory Management List , Network Development , linux-decnet-user@lists.sourceforge.net, samba-technical@lists.samba.org, LKML , Linux-Renesas , linux-security-module@vger.kernel.org, linux-usb@vger.kernel.org, tipc-discussion@lists.sourceforge.net, "open list:HARDWARE RANDOM NUMBER GENERATOR CORE" , patches@opensource.cirrus.com, Joe Perches , linux-integrity@vger.kernel.org, linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org, linux-hardening@vger.kernel.org On Wed, 25 Nov 2020, Nick Desaulniers wrote: > So developers and distributions using Clang can't have > -Wimplicit-fallthrough enabled because GCC is less strict (which has > been shown in this thread to lead to bugs)? We'd like to have nice > things too, you know. > Apparently the GCC developers don't want you to have "nice things" either. Do you think that the kernel should drop gcc in favour of clang? Or do you think that a codebase can somehow satisfy multiple checkers and their divergent interpretations of the language spec? > This is not a shiny new warning; it's already on for GCC and has existed > in both compilers for multiple releases. > Perhaps you're referring to the compiler feature that lead to the ill-fated, tree-wide /* fallthrough */ patch series. When the ink dries on the C23 language spec and the implementations figure out how to interpret it then sure, enforce the warning for new code -- the cost/benefit analysis is straight forward. However, the case for patching existing mature code is another story.