&gt; one of the biggest anti-features in C<p>Please.  I&#x27;m as big a C apologist as you&#x27;ll find and even I can think of six or nine thing objectively worse about the language.<p>This issue is merely a great bike shed because it allows all of us rabble to join in on a discussion about &quot;compiler&quot; technology.<p>Look: it&#x27;s a good warning.  People should clearly use it.  It probably should have been written long ago, and probably would have if our editors hadn&#x27;t been enforcing this since time immemorial.