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

From: Tobias Schwinger (tschwinger_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-01-16 14:41:08

Felipe Magno de Almeida 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...
>

Ah - interesting. Never noticed this switch before.

However, I still think that disabling useful warnings should be a last 
resort and if done I still prefer disabling one over a whole set of 
them. Further: they will pop up again when compiling for a 64-bit target 
architecure. Overthis it's much easier to just rewrite the few lines 
causing the problem (that's what I did to get rid of the warnings).

The intent behind my post was to let the developers know about it.
Warnings do not prevent a regression test to pass and if there are some 
it doesn't really hurt anyone. But in this (probably MSC specific) case 
the output becomes quite verbose.