Re: [boost] Official warnings policy?

Subject: Re: [boost] Official warnings policy?
From: Patrick Horgan (phorgan1_at_[hidden])
Date: 2009-11-10 16:09:45

Jeffrey Bosboom wrote:
> Patrick Horgan wrote:
>>    But redundant.  It's already built into gcc to do this.  If you 
>> just have
>>    the pragma and then build with -Wsystem-headers it turns the 
>> warnings back
>>    on.  No sense in reinventing the wheel.
>>    Cheers,
>>    Patrick
>
> But wouldn't that also cause the standard library and other actual 
> system headers to generate warnings?  It would presumably be difficult 
> to pick out the Boost warnings from the standard library ones, just as 
> Boost users currently complain about picking out warnings from their 
> code amidst Boost warnings.
That's a great point.  Really, I would not use that pragma at all.  I 
would make the header not generate errors, or silence individual ones.

Patrick