[cfe-dev] should -Wimplicit-fallthrough require C++11?

[Jordan Rose]

On Nov 12, 2012, at 6:35 , Douglas Gregor <dgregor at apple.com> wrote:

> 
> On Nov 10, 2012, at 10:41 AM, Nico Weber <thakis at chromium.org> wrote:
> 
>> On Fri, Nov 9, 2012 at 8:15 PM, Ted Kremenek <kremenek at apple.com> wrote:
>>> On Nov 9, 2012, at 7:04 PM, Richard Smith <richard at metafoo.co.uk> wrote:
>>> 
>>> The original intention was that the warning could be used in any
>>> language mode, if you wanted a warning on *all* switch fallthrough,
>>> and that people who didn't want that could just not turn it on.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Right.
>>> 
>>> I
>>> guess the complaints you're receiving are for situations where the
>>> warning can't simply be disabled (or not enabled in the first place)?
>>> 
>>> 
>>> What has happened is that a fair number of users have discovered this
>>> warning using -Weverything.  When they first discover it they find it
>>> interesting.  After they discover that they cannot add an annotation (as the
>>> warning suggests) they get very frustrated.  They are then left with the
>>> choice of just turning the warning off, or using pragmas.  For those users
>>> who like the warning in principle, but find that they cannot use it in
>>> practice because of these limitations (because they are not using C++11)
>>> they view it is an incomplete feature.  Several people have thus requested
>>> to not see the warning at all.
>> 
>> If you're using -Weverything, shouldn't the expectation be that you'll
>> end up turning off several warnings?
> 
> 
> Yes, but only if those warnings aren't useful to your situation. This warning should have widespread applicability, but it's actually useless outside of C++11 because there's no clean workaround.

I disagree; as a stylistic warning -Wimplicit-fallthrough is still useful. I can definitely see a project where you'd prefer to disallow all fallthroughs and require copied code rather than annotating with a comment.

But we don't really have a good policy for purely-style warnings (besides "they could go in the analyzer instead").

Jordan