Error: this statement may fall through [-Werror=implicit-fallthrough=]

Question

I am trying to compile mitk on ubuntu and I got this error :

error: this statement may fall through [-Werror=implicit-fallthrough=]

Here there is a part of code :

      /** Get memory offset for a given image index */
      unsigned int GetOffset(const IndexType & idx) const
      {
       const unsigned int * imageDims = m_ImageDataItem->m_Dimensions;

        unsigned int offset = 0;
        switch(VDimension)
        {
        case 4:
         offset = offset + idx[3]*imageDims[0]*imageDims[1]*imageDims[2];
        case 3:
        offset = offset + idx[2]*imageDims[0]*imageDims[1];
        case 2:
        offset  = offset + idx[0] + idx[1]*imageDims[0];
         break;
        }

        return offset;
      }

I would be appreciate for any help please.

Answer 1

You should add keyword break to each case statement, if you don't do that, the code will run from case which it matches condition and continue to meet the

break;

for example: If VDimension = 4, then the code will run from case 4 => continue to case 3 => contine to case 2 then break. It means that it will execute below commands:

offset = offset + idx[3]*imageDims[0]*imageDims[1]*imageDims[2];
offset = offset + idx[2]*imageDims[0]*imageDims[1];
offset  = offset + idx[0] + idx[1]*imageDims[0];
break;
return offset;

I think your code should be:

/** Get memory offset for a given image index */
  unsigned int GetOffset(const IndexType & idx) const
  {
   const unsigned int * imageDims = m_ImageDataItem->m_Dimensions;

    unsigned int offset = 0;
    switch(VDimension)
    {
    case 4:
     offset = offset + idx[3]*imageDims[0]*imageDims[1]*imageDims[2];
     break;
    case 3:
     offset = offset + idx[2]*imageDims[0]*imageDims[1];
     break;
    case 2:
     offset  = offset + idx[0] + idx[1]*imageDims[0];
     break;
    }

    return offset;
  }