The Linux Kernel Is Close To Enabling "-Wimplicit-fallthrough" By Default


The -Wimplicit-fallthrough compiler flag has been around since GCC 7 for warning over switch fall-through cases where it could lead to potential bugs / unexpected behavior if the programmer inadvertently forgot to add a "break" statement to a case. The Linux kernel is looking to soon enable this warning by default.
The -Wimplicit-fallthrough warning tries to be smart about its handling and only warn the programmer/user when appropriate and acknowledging cases where a switch case fall-through would be desirable. Newer Linux kernel developer Gustavo A. R. Silva has been working through more than two thousand warnings from this implicit-fallthrough compiler flag. Of 2,311 cases currently in the kernel where warnings have been emitted, only 32 are left to be gone through to determine if there is any code bugs or a false positive.
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