Re: [boost] VC7/Threads Warnings

From: David Abrahams (dave_at_[hidden])
Date: 2003-03-25 15:56:14

"William E. Kempf" <wekempf_at_[hidden]> writes:

> Hmm... this surprised me.  Mr. Maclean indicated the warnings were level 1
> _and_ 2.  Builds with bjam do report errors, so the warning level can't be
> 0.  MSDN indicates "Level 2 is the default warning level at the command
> line."  So I assumed that it must be an RTL issue causing the warnings for
> him.  However, experimenting with 'bjam -sTOOLS=vc7
> -sBUILD="<vc7><*><cxxflags>-W2' does indeed produce the warnings in
> question.  So it appears that MSDN is wrong, and that level 1 is selected
> if none is supplied?  I plan to bump the level up in my own set of bjam
> tool sets.

Suggestion: turn them on with #pragmas in the library's test files.

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Dave Abrahams
Boost Consulting
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