Re: [boost] Official warnings policy?

Subject: Re: [boost] Official warnings policy?
From: Ian McCulloch (ianmcc_at_[hidden])
Date: 2009-11-05 10:45:20

Steven Watanabe wrote:

> AMDG
> 
> Patrick Horgan wrote:
>> Vladimir Prus wrote:
>>> I would remove -pedantic, but otherwise, it's a very good idea.
>>> Unfortunately,
>>> recent discussion left me with the impression that few folks care.
>>>   
>> -pedantic issues all the warnings required by strict ISO C and ISO
>> C++.  They are in the standard for a reason, and I think it fair to
>> expect system code that I build my code on to pass it.  It's the same
>> parts of boost that always generate warnings.  Other parts are always
>> free of warnings.  Not rocket science to know that some are building
>> better code.
> 
> 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.

Sure, but you can turn off -pedantic warnings individually.  I
use -pedantic -Wall -Wno-long-long -Wno-unused-value a lot.

Cheers,
Ian