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Compiler warnings are harmful

• danielrpa 11y ago
  It's on the Internet, it must be right! Seems that the author is annoyed by people in his workplace who enabled "treat warnings as errors" and wrote a rant. You can always disable compiler warnings if you don't like them.
  • andrewchambers 11y ago
    You could try rebutting the points instead of making such a weak comment. I use every check available including the clang static analyser btw.
• chazu 11y ago
  I definitely identify with the point about alarm fatigue: as a web developer who is used to spelunking for errors with a single stack trace, seeing 1000 warnings scroll by when compiling a large project (especially someone else's) can be daunting. That being said I don't see it as a serious issue - if I were really put off by it I would write a utility to customize the output of my compiler to suit my tastes - isn't that what hackers do anyhow?