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Re:Do Not Taunt Happy Fun Branch Predictor by flohofwoe on Friday January 27, 2023 @03:29AM (#34543910)
> My home projects are not so large that gcc/clang/msvc authors would test their upgrades against my project, so the bounds of the standard are the limits that I can trust.

You'll need to check your code against each new compiler release you want to support anyway, because each release adds a shitton of new warnings which are also not covered by the C standard but should be fixed nonetheless.

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Re:Do Not Taunt Happy Fun Branch Predictor by MereInterest on Saturday January 28, 2023 @02:54PM (#34561051)
Absolutely, and it's really fantastic seeing how many bugs get caught from the new warnings. However, the effort required to check warnings is far, far less than the effort required to validate the assembly output, and so I think the point still stands.
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