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Re:Compiler Bug Causes Compiler Bug: How a 12-Year-Old G++ B... by tialaramex on Friday August 15, 2025 @03:56PM (#44916689)
Fair. That's actually crazy - I dug into this more and found the chosen Boost package fails tests on the chosen compiler, and so if they'd done even a cursory check to see if what they're doing could make sense there'd be red flags everywhere.

So the overall story is mostly "Our QA is garbage".

Re:Compiler Bug Causes Compiler Bug: How a 12-Year-Old G++ B... by saalweachter on Saturday August 16, 2025 @06:57AM (#44922142)
If it's at the "we never compile with -Wall -Werror" level of non-existent QA, I feel like that's an insult to garbage.
Re:Compiler Bug Causes Compiler Bug: How a 12-Year-Old G++ B... by tialaramex on Saturday August 16, 2025 @09:21AM (#44923171)
-Wall -Werror means that instead of being able to be used as a ratchet the set of "all" warnings in C and C++ became rusted in place. I sympathise with the instinct to write this in your compiler flags, but alas thanks to Hyrum's law this makes the future worse and so today people ask that you -Wextra and no doubt I'll eventually read of how C is fine so long as you -Wall -Wextra -Wevenmore -Wyetmore -Wandthese