Re: [boost] [serialization] MSVC8 warning flood (widened size_t)

From: Felipe Magno de Almeida (felipe.almeida_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-01-16 08:42:46

I think that all that you need to make this warnings disappear is 
disable the Detect 64-bit Portability Issues in the settings of the 
C/C++ compiler in the project options...

Tobias Schwinger wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> when using the Boost.Serialization library with MSVC8 I get flooded by 
> (about thousand lines of) warning messages due to the fact that size_t 
> has been widened (and there are just very few small classes in my 
> project that use serialization).
> 
> It's especially annoying because warnings about truncating conversions 
> are quite useful, in general (I wouldn't want to disable them 
> permanently, that is).
> 
> Boost.Serialization:
> 
>  [ collections_save_impl.hpp:36 ] "possible loss of data converting...".
>     unsigned int <var> = <size_t expression>
>     
>  [ detail/oserializer.hpp:479 ] "possible loss of data converting..".
>     int <var> = <size_t expression>
> 
> - I guess there are some more but these are the ones the compiler gets 
> to see in my project (that's also why I didn't post a patch).
> 
> Boost.TypeTraits (used by Boost.Serialization):
> 
>  [ is_abstract.hpp:81 ] BOOST_STATIC_ASSERT(sizeof(expression))"
>         "forcing value to bool"
> 
> 
> Just in case it isn't on anyone's todo-list, yet...
> 
> 
> Greetings,
> 
> Tobias
> 
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