Re: [boost] Official warnings policy?

Subject: Re: [boost] Official warnings policy?
From: Bo Persson (bop_at_[hidden])
Date: 2009-11-05 11:43:20

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.

I bet this can be caused by the maintainers of some libraries using 
the same compiler you do. Using another compiler produces a different 
set of warnings.

Bo Persson