Re: [boost] Official warnings policy?

Subject: Re: [boost] Official warnings policy?
From: John Maddock (john_at_[hidden])
Date: 2009-11-05 04:41:11

> Even the problems reported by -pedantic are not necessarily real problems.
> For example, it's a huge pain to use long long with -pedantic, even though
> all uses in boost should be protected by #ifdefs.

The problem is that long long is still present and perfectly usable 
with -pedantic: you just get tons of warnings.  However, we do have the 
machinery to fix these warnings: Boost.Math should compile and test cleanly 
with -pedantic (or /W4 with MSVC) in spite of extensive long long usage, and 
even the pesky integer_traits.hpp is clean now in Trunk, albeit with a 
gcc-specific hack.  That gives the user the option to use long long or not 
in their code and still see these warnings if they want them, without 
getting swamped from page after page of template instantiations from Boost.

John.