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		yjftsjthsd-h on April 30, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: My favorite C compiler flags during development I would expect forcibly overriding warnings to be a massive red flag in code review? Like, what company cares enough to care about warnings in CI but not catch people bypassing that check?

becquerel on April 30, 2023 | [–]

Haha. Hahahaha. Let's just say that there are equivalents to 'security theatre' in this area as well.

sgerenser on April 30, 2023 | [–]

Environments where people do stuff like that usually don’t have code review.

yjftsjthsd-h on April 30, 2023 | [–]

If they don't even have code reviews, why do they care about a few warnings in CI?

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