[TUHS] C question for the historians

[Chet Ramey]

On 11/8/17 3:13 PM, ron minnich wrote:
> There's a lot of weird lore around use of C nowadays, a lot of it in my
> experience from folks who come from Java. But this w & MASK discussion is
> one of the weirder ones.

gcc warns about it in its default mode, which is why so many people who
are adamant about warning-free compilation have weird workarounds. It's
just a PITA.

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