> You're talking about production software, many of which has decades worth of commit history, which you simply cannot spend time going through each and every single line of code of your >1M LoC codebase.
They can keep using the old standard.
> They can keep using the old standard.
But they cannot upgrade. Ever. At least without requiring major maintenance work. Which means never. Do you understand what that means?
Every compiler continues to support old standards. What risk am I missing? This feels like a perfectly acceptable outcome for icky legacy code that is not essential enough to maintain.