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Re:Rust things I miss in C by masklinn on Monday February 19, 2018 @10:04AM (#16413257)
> Some of this could be improved with better C compilers, right?

Not significantly, not as long as they are C compilers and thus accept all valid C code.

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Re:Rust things I miss in C by loeg on Monday February 19, 2018 @11:02AM (#16413620)
Depends on what you mean by "accept," doesn't it?

Yes, without -Werror, C compilers won't act on diagnostic warnings. But C compilers can and do warn about "valid C code" that happens to set off alarm bells.

And with -Werror, they reject some valid C code.

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