Re: [boost] VC71 boost.thread 1.31.0 warnings ?!

From: Nicolas LELONG / mgdesign (nico_ml_at_[hidden])
Date: 2004-03-18 13:02:17

Maciej,

Thanks for your answer,

> Some time ago I found (I do not remember where) a list of warnings that
> are not helpful at all but can be generated when compiling modern libs.

indeed I found a boost document that explicits the warnings to disable
(intended for library authors) :

<document_quote>
#ifdef BOOST_MSVC
#  pragma warning(push)
#  pragma warning(disable : 4251 4231 4660)
#endif

// code here

#ifdef BOOST_MSVC
#pragma warning(pop)
#endif
This is safe provided that there are no dependencies that are (template)
classes with non-constant static data members, these really do need
exporting, otherwise there will be multiple copies of the static data
members in the program, and that's really really bad.

</document_quote>

The whole document is here :
http://www.boost.org/more/separate_compilation.html

I think I'll have to check soon if the boost.thread classes really don't
cause problems, and perhaps propose a patch

Thanks,

Nicolas