Re: [boost] #pragma warning (dsiable : 4996) ineffective?

From: John Femiani (JOHN.FEMIANI_at_[hidden])
Date: 2008-04-01 14:14:43

Roland Schwartz wrote:
> 
> I have seen some attempts from library authors,
> e.g. boost/thread/win32/conditiona_variable.hpp
> to get rid of the annoying MSVC warnings.
> 
> However this seems not to work (at least on my machine).
>

How does the pragma work? Does it disable all warnings, or only warnings
in subsequent declarations?  Does the warning state apply when a
template class is declared or instantiated? 

John Maddock wrote:
> Anthony Williams wrote:
> >> Couldn't this issue be handled by the boost config headers?
> >
> > That would seem better than handling it on a case-by-case basis, but
> > it might change things for user code too (i.e. any code included
> > *after* the boost headers).
>
In VC8, there is #pragma push_macro and pop_macro

> It's also fragile: it only works if the Boost header is the first
header
> included, and if that header doesn't include any std lib headers
before
> boost/config.hpp :-(
> 

But what if there is other truly deprecated code?  Isn't disabling the
macro much more specific than disabling all warnings for all deprecated
code?  

-- John Femiani