Re: [boost] Official warnings policy?

Subject: Re: [boost] Official warnings policy?
From: David Abrahams (dave_at_[hidden])
Date: 2009-11-06 20:40:15

on Wed Nov 04 2009, Vladimir Prus <vladimir-AT-codesourcery.com> wrote:

> John Maddock wrote:
>
>> I'm *not* saying we should do this for 1.41, but should we have an official
>> policy regarding compiler warnings and which ones we regard as "failures"?
>> 
>> I realize these can get pretty busy-body at times, but if the user sees
>> several pages of warnings when building Boost it doesn't look so good.  So
>> my suggestion would be that we have two test-runners (if we have any spare!)
>> that build with warnings-as-errors, maybe:
>> 
>> -Wall -pedantic -Wstrict-aliasing -fstrict-aliasing -Werror
>
> I would remove -pedantic, but otherwise, it's a very good idea. 

Why should we remove -pedantic, specifically?

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