Then those systems are maintained, then then could correct their legacy C code to "fixed-C" (which should be not that much in-real-life anyways). It would be p

Then those systems are maintained, then then could correct their legacy C code to "fixed-C" (which should be not that much in-real-life anyways). It would be possible to do a quick-and-dirty work with preprocessor definitions. The real thing is when you want to write "fixed-C" with a legacy compiler: you realize than it does so much things without telling you, you would need a really accurate warning system in order to catch all those things. I was told gcc can report all integer promotions, true?