Re: [boost] Spurious warning in lexical_cast.hpp

From: Gennaro Prota (gennaro_prota_at_[hidden])
Date: 2006-07-29 13:23:11

On Fri, 28 Jul 2006 19:29:34 -0400, "Joe Gottman"
<jgottman_at_[hidden]> wrote:

> When I compile lexical_cast.hpp using MSVC 03 I get a spurious warning:
>
>  warning C4701: local variable 'result' may be used without having been 
>initialized.

The code can easily be rewritten in terms of nested if-s, with the
arguable benefit that a Target instance would be constructed only if
interpreter << arg succeeded. Apart from that marginal gain, the point
is whether we want to support the insane VC 7.1 warning level 4.

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