Re: [boost] Official warnings policy?

Subject: Re: [boost] Official warnings policy?
From: Paul A. Bristow (pbristow_at_[hidden])
Date: 2009-11-06 12:13:48

> -----Original Message-----
> From: boost-bounces_at_[hidden] [mailto:boost-bounces_at_[hidden]] On
Behalf Of
> Beman Dawes
> Sent: Friday, November 06, 2009 4:34 PM
> To: boost_at_[hidden]
> Subject: Re: [boost] Official warnings policy?
> 
> On Thu, Nov 5, 2009 at 12:07 PM, Paul A. Bristow
> <pbristow_at_[hidden]> wrote:
> >
> > https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/wiki/Guidelines/MaintenanceGuidelines
> >
> > is a first go at this.
> 
> Turning off Microsoft extensions (/Za) for the Filesystem library
> doesn't work; the library implementation for Windows uses Microsoft
> headers that use Microsoft extensions.
> 
> So you need to qualify the turn off compiler specific extensions
> advise. Perhaps change
> 
> "For Microsoft Visual Studio, this means setting level to 4 (command line
/W4),
> and disabling Microsoft language extensions Disable MS extensions =
> Yes, command line option /Za "
> 
> to:
> 
> "For Microsoft Visual Studio, this means setting level to 4 (command
> line /W4). For code that doesn't deliberately use Microsoft language
> extensions, disable them with Disable MS extensions = Yes, command
> line option /Za"

Yes.  Done

Paul