Type safety could prevent nuclear war

[tsbockman via Digitalmars-d]

On Friday, 5 February 2016 at 00:41:52 UTC, Ola Fosheim Grøstad 
wrote:
> On Friday, 5 February 2016 at 00:14:11 UTC, tsbockman wrote:
>> But it's 2016 and my PC has 32GiB of RAM. Why should a C 
>> compiler running on such a system skip safety checks just 
>> because they would be too expensive to run on some *other* 
>> computer?
>
> C has to be backwards compatible, but I don't know why people 
> do larger projects in C in 2016.
> [...]

Why would simply adding a warning change any of that?

No ABI changes are required. Backwards compatibility is not 
broken.