Re: [trivial PATCH] treewide: Convert switch/case fallthrough; to break;

Joe Perches
2020-09-10T02:24:16Z

On Wed, 2020-09-09 at 19:36 -0300, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 09, 2020 at 01:06:39PM -0700, Joe Perches wrote:
> > fallthrough to a separate case/default label break; isn't very readable.
> >
> > Convert pseudo-keyword fallthrough; statements to a simple break; when
> > the next label is case or default and the only statement in the next
> > label block is break;
> >
> > Found using:
> >
> > $ grep-2.5.4 -rP --include=*.[ch] -n "fallthrough;(\s*(case\s+\w+|default)\s*:\s*){1,7}break;" *
> >
> > Miscellanea:
> >
> > o Move or coalesce a couple label blocks above a default: block.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
> > ---
> >
> > Compiled allyesconfig x86-64 only.
> > A few files for other arches were not compiled.
>
> IB part looks OK, I prefer it like this
>
> You could do the same for continue as well, I saw a few of those..

I saw some continue uses as well but wasn't sure
and didn't look to see if the switch/case with
continue was in a for/while loop.