From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
To: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Cc: Progyan Bhattacharya <bprogyan@gmail.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>,
Nick Desaulniers <nick.desaulniers@gmail.com>,
Lukas Bulwahn <lukas.bulwahn@gmail.com>,
Nicholas Mc Guire <der.herr@hofr.at>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] objtool/x86: Replace Non-standard Range Expression in Case
Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2018 17:47:22 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180216164722.GF25201@hirez.programming.kicks-ass.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180216143511.fo4emxz6webqk7qn@treble>
On Fri, Feb 16, 2018 at 08:35:11AM -0600, Josh Poimboeuf wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 16, 2018 at 07:55:13PM +0530, Progyan Bhattacharya wrote:
> > Replace range expressions with seperate individual cases, i.e. convert case 1...3: to case 1: case 2: case 3
> > Range expression within case statements are non-standard C code and can create issues over compiler and platform variety.
> >
> > While compiling with gcc 4.8 (RHEL) I encountered this error on range expression in case statements:
> > error: range expressions in switch statements are non-standard [-Werror=pedantic]
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Progyan Bhattacharya <progyanb@acm.org>
>
> Hi Progyan,
>
> Thank you for the patch.
>
> I think this makes the code unnecessarily verbose and less readable. We
> rely on many such GCC extensions, and we don't aim to comply with
> standard C. And AFAIK, we don't use -Werror=pedantic in the kernel.
Agreed, it makes the code actively worse. Just don't use error=pedantic.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-02-16 16:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-02-16 14:19 [PATCH] objtool/x86: Replace Non-standard Range Expression in Case Progyan Bhattacharya
2018-02-16 14:25 ` Progyan Bhattacharya
2018-02-16 14:35 ` Josh Poimboeuf
2018-02-16 16:47 ` Peter Zijlstra [this message]
2018-02-18 3:36 ` Progyan Bhattacharya
2018-02-16 14:39 ` Progyan Bhattacharya
2018-02-16 15:03 ` Josh Poimboeuf
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