Re: enabling -Werror=assign-enum for kernel

In reply to: Gleb Smirnoff : "Re: enabling -Werror=assign-enum for kernel"
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From: Michael Tuexen <tuexen_at_FreeBSD.org>
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 2026 20:46:47 UTC

> On 27. Aug 2026, at 19:02, Gleb Smirnoff <glebius@FreeBSD.org> wrote:
> 
> On Thu, Aug 27, 2026 at 06:47:54PM +0200, Michael Tuexen wrote:
> M> > Yes, you are right.  The mistake I described above won't be catched by this
> M> > Werror.  Other enum usage errors can be caught though.
> M> Which ones? I am only aware of missing values in a switch statement.
> 
> Assigning something that doesn't belong to enum.
> 
> Examples:
> 
> e79f6aa3e5e122a56875c472fb08c8db1db26e46
> 2ae8976a3f6a7e4deb1905326145f5c2575264f4
> 9d765453b0a93f2ec4ca2b91c3a20ec909bd3b6d
> 6a15fd92392cfda1e0b7608e1a4a08509bc796f3
> d2a9eef321dca4738d44edf8b73c8037332b8060
Ahh, thank you very much! Makes sense.

Best regards
Michael
> 
> -- 
> Gleb Smirnoff