Re: brain teasers

Stephen Sprunk wrote:

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You need to use "-ansi -pedantic -W -Wall" to get everything.

I'll leave understanding the rationale of -Wall not including all
warnings as an exercise for the reader :)

I suspect it is historic. At one point -Wall enabled all. Then
more were needed. In order to not disturb old makefiles, -W was
added.

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