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		bluGill on Oct 4, 2017 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Useful GCC warning options not enabled by -Wall -W... The C standard is dropping support for things like gets, a compliant modern compiler should fail to build any code that uses that. This is very controversial with compilers - and gets is among the most horrid thing that ever made it into a compiler.

quotemstr on Oct 4, 2017 [–]

PulseEvent and IsBadReadPtr are worse. Windows has some of the very best and the very worst in API design.

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