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I highly recommend this article written by my colleagues Serge Guelton and Yannis Juglaret about a truly hard-to-parse issue that affected #Firefox users on old Ubuntu installations.
It's a cautionary tale about how complex builds can be affected by subtle compiler/linker flags. Also, C++ is hard and making modern C++ work on older platforms is painful and full of pitfalls.
https://hacks.mozilla.org/2024/01/option-soup-the-subtle-pitfalls-of-combining-compiler-flags/
Mozilla Hacks – the Web developer blogOption Soup: the subtle pitfalls of combining compiler flags – Mozilla Hacks - the Web developer blogDuring the Firefox 120 beta cycle, a new crash signature appeared on our radars. Engineers explored the pitfalls of combining compiler flags.
@gabrielesvelto OpenMW had a recent issue along these lines, where variable types not being entirely supported uniformly across platforms resulted in (on Linux) animations stopping working correctly.