gcc 7 adds -Wimplicit-fallthrough=3 to -Wextra. There are a few ways
we could deal with that. After we take into account the need to stay compatible
with older versions of the compiler (and other compilers), I don't think adding
__attribute__((fallthrough)), even as a macro, is worth the trouble. It sticks
out too much, a comment is just as good. But gcc has some very specific
requiremnts how the comment should look. Adjust it the specific form that it
likes. I don't think the extra stuff we had in those comments was adding much
value.
(Note: the documentation seems to be wrong, and seems to describe a different
pattern from the one that is actually used. I guess either the docs or the code
will have to change before gcc 7 is finalized.)
Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek
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