The Vax C compiler used to do this, and mostly got it right. It was a complete nightmare trying to port code that compiled and ran perfectly well on the dept m

The Vax C compiler used to do this, and mostly got it right. It was a complete nightmare trying to port code that compiled and ran perfectly well on the dept microvax when we all transitioned to Ultrix and Linux. As a result of those months of pain, even thirty years later I’m a huge fan of strongly typed languages, compiling with -Wall and -Werror, and have a zero-warning policy. If you’ve never gone through it, you wouldn’t understand...