Re: [boost] Are warnings acceptable artifacts from builds?

Subject: Re: [boost] Are warnings acceptable artifacts from builds?
From: Edouard A. (edouard_at_[hidden])
Date: 2009-09-09 09:42:36

On Wed, 09 Sep 2009 14:34:44 +0100, pete_at_[hidden] wrote:
> On Wed 09/09/09 15:19 , Maciej Sobczak <prog_at_[hidden]> wrote:
> With gcc, we have chosen to include Boost using -i_system rather than -i
so
> that /all/ Boost-generated warnings are suppressed, on the grounds that
> Boost developers know what they are doing and that all warnings are thus
> spurious. I'm interested if others think this approach is too cavalier.

When compiling with MSVC9 or 10 on x64 with warnings set to the maximum I
really get flooded.

What you're doing is maybe a bit cavalier but I wouldn't blame you, the
amount of warnings is currently too important to disable them one by one in
each file.

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EA