[Bug c/92479] missing warnings for unreachable codes with break (i.e. revive the subset of -Wunreachable-code that fits under clang's -Wunreachable-code-break)

[egallager at gcc dot gnu.org]

https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=92479

Eric Gallager <egallager at gcc dot gnu.org> changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
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             Blocks|                            |87403
            Summary|missing warnings for        |missing warnings for
                   |unreachable codes with      |unreachable codes with
                   |-Wunreachable-code          |break (i.e. revive the
                   |                            |subset of
                   |                            |-Wunreachable-code that
                   |                            |fits under clang's
                   |                            |-Wunreachable-code-break)

--- Comment #6 from Eric Gallager <egallager at gcc dot gnu.org> ---
(In reply to Manuel López-Ibáñez from comment #5)
> This should be suspended until someone comes up with a proposal for reviving
> -Wunreachable that is supported by GCC developers. Having bugs lying around
> in UNCONFIRMED or NEW may give the impression that a quick-and-dirty
> solution may be acceptable, which is not the case. Any proposed solution
> must solve the problems that led to the removal of the previous
> -Wunreachable-code.

I think this specific bug is just about adding the -Wunreachable-code-break
sub-obtion of -Wunreachable-code; not reviving -Wunreachable-code as a whole.
Retitling to clarify that this would be a new flag


Referenced Bugs:

https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=87403
[Bug 87403] [Meta-bug] Issues that suggest a new warning