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MSVC /Wall is not unusable because of standard library headers
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The current wording reads "`/Wall` - Also warns on files included from the standard library, so it's not very useful and creates too many extra warnings." – this reason does not seem to hold, because `/external` (i.e. `/external:anglebrackets`) exists and is effective in preventing `/Wall` warnings in the standard headers too.
A better reason to avoid `/Wall` would be a large number of informational diagnostics (i.e. https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/cpp/error-messages/compiler-warnings/compiler-warning-level-1-c4711?view=msvc-170) - but then again, these can be disabled individually.
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