Re: [boost] Boost Policy on compiler warnings?

From: Beman Dawes (bdawes_at_[hidden])
Date: 2002-08-06 19:45:28

At 09:25 AM 8/6/2002, Pete Becker wrote:

 >At 09:15 AM 8/6/2002 -0400, Beman Dawes wrote:
 >>The new regression test reporting [optionally] makes compiler warnings
 >>visible.  That seemed to be a Good Thing, but it isn't 100% obvious 
which
 >>warnings we should be chasing.
 >
 >Warnings create, in essence, language variations. Today they're one of 
the
 >biggest obstacles to portability.

Sigh...  I'm afraid you're right.

That would argue for either not reporting warnings at all, or only 
reporting warnings that are likely to be common to many platforms.

I'd like to hear from others.  Or maybe nobody cares about warnings and we 
should forget the whole idea.

--Beman