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Sep 3, 2020 at 06:43
Symptoms, diagnosis, and the recommended treatments of bad code from modern compilers:
Two musings on the design of compiler warnings
Today I finally write down some musings on two peripheral aspects of compiler diagnostic design that I think are very important for certain kinds of warnings. My first musing relates to fixits, and my second to suppression mechanisms.

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