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cyberax • today at 5:39 PM • 1 reply • view on HN

That's like compiling with -Wall. Stuff will keep breaking randomly, so people will just disable it.


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bluGill • today at 7:04 PM

Some people. Most projects I know of build -Wall and fix all the errors. Developers all run - Error. 30 years ago this was madness but compilers are good about fixing false positives and so it is reasonable.

It isn't reasonable to expect downstream (i.e. Debian) to fix warnings but developers generally do for code they maintain.