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Why Git Has a Variable Named false_but_the_compiler_does_not_know_it_
(blog.codingconfessions.com)
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this post was submitted on 20 Jun 2026
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My thought was that they may have to disable it differently for each compiler which might not be pretty, but yeah seems much easier to just do that as needed than to bend over backwards to look clever AND introduce unnecessary runtime effects at the same time.