Re: [boost] Supressing warnings

From: Paul A Bristow (pbristow_at_[hidden])
Date: 2006-06-27 10:51:34

|  -----Original Message-----
|  From: boost-bounces_at_[hidden] 
|  [mailto:boost-bounces_at_[hidden]] On Behalf Of Oliver Kullmann
|  Sent: 27 June 2006 13:29
|  To: boost_at_[hidden]
|  Subject: Re: [boost] Supressing warnings
|  
|  In my opinion, a major problem with paying 
|  attention to warnings and changing the code in order
|  to prevent warnings is, that in this way the code
|  is not only written for a *special compiler*, but
|  even **for a special compiler version**.
|  I don't think that this is good practice.
|  
|  More and more people realise, that the code "should
|  speak the truth", but code can be obfuscated by trying
|  to prevent compiler warnings (for some special compiler,
|  in some special version). 

What about the MSVC warning 4127?

silenced with

#  pragma warning(disable: 4127) // conditional expression is constant.

No amount of recoding can help with this can this - a constant conditional
expression is exactly what one was trying to achieve!

What are you suggesting for this?

Doing nothing is not an option, if you accept my premise that a -pedantic or
MSVC level 4 compile without warnings is what we want.

What mechanism for supressing it is best?

|  Having said this, in my experience gcc, version 4.1 or later,
|  with "-ansi -pedantic -Wall" works quite well.

Does it produce a "conditional expression is constant" warning?
(Or similar generally unhelpful messages).

How can you stop it?

Paul

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