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

From: Michael Walter (michael.walter_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-01-16 12:12:54

But this will not fix the potential bug it's warning about.

Michael

On Sun, 16 Jan 2005 11:42:46 -0200, Felipe Magno de Almeida
<felipe.almeida_at_[hidden]> wrote:
> 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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