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

Subject: Re: [boost] Are warnings acceptable artifacts from builds?
From: Steven Watanabe (watanabesj_at_[hidden])
Date: 2009-09-11 19:04:27

AMDG

Emil Dotchevski wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 11:31 AM, Stewart, Robert
> <Robert.Stewart_at_[hidden]> wrote:
>   
>> Emil Dotchevski wrote:
>>     
>>> If the "we want no warnings dammit" crowd main argument is "at my
>>> company we have zero-warnings policy, we can't do anything about it"
>>> then arguing whether or not any particular warning should be addressed
>>> is pointless (OTOH, I'd bet that no company has zero-warnings policy
>>> because some warnings can't be dealt with any other way but by
>>> disabling them.)
>>>       
>> Disabling a warning, provided the scope is controlled, is fine.
>>     
>
> Yes, but with GCC you can't control the scope.
>   

It isn't quite as fine-grained as msvc's mechanism, but you can use
#pragma GCC system_header
It seems to handle templates okay in recent versions.

In Christ,
Steven Watanabe