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Re: [Ocfs2-devel] [RFC] treewide: cleanup unreachable breaks
 
- To: trix@xxxxxxxxxx
 
- From: Matthew Wilcox <willy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
 
- Date: Sun, 18 Oct 2020 19:59:43 +0100
 
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- Delivery-date: Sun, 18 Oct 2020 19:00:48 +0000
 
- List-id: Xen developer discussion <xen-devel.lists.xenproject.org>
 
 
 
On Sat, Oct 17, 2020 at 09:09:28AM -0700, trix@xxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> clang has a number of useful, new warnings see
> https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://clang.llvm.org/docs/DiagnosticsReference.html__;!!GqivPVa7Brio!Krxz78O3RKcB9JBMVo_F98FupVhj_jxX60ddN6tKGEbv_cnooXc1nnBmchm-e_O9ieGnyQ$
>  
Please get your IT department to remove that stupidity.  If you can't,
please send email from a non-Red Hat email address.
I don't understand why this is a useful warning to fix.  What actual
problem is caused by the code below?
> return and break
> 
>       switch (c->x86_vendor) {
>       case X86_VENDOR_INTEL:
>               intel_p5_mcheck_init(c);
>               return 1;
> -             break;
Sure, it's unnecessary, but it's not masking a bug.  It's not unclear.
Why do we want to enable this warning?
 
    
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