Re: [boost] [Wiki] Changes in information about gcc warnings.

Subject: Re: [boost] [Wiki] Changes in information about gcc warnings.
From: Paul A. Bristow (pbristow_at_[hidden])
Date: 2011-01-19 05:06:17

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> On Behalf Of Patrick Horgan
> Sent: Wednesday, January 19, 2011 12:12 AM
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> Subject: Re: [boost] [Wiki] Changes in information about gcc warnings.

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> > As Paul noted, such details should be included in the Wiki so they won't
be a
> surprise.
> I just added this to the wiki for pedantic:
> 
> *-pedantic*
> 
>     This instructs GCC to consider the release version of C or C++ and
>     to first issue all warnings required by that version of the
>     standard, and second warn about the use of gcc extenstions to the
>     language. This would, for instance warn about the use of /#ident/
>     since it is a gcc extension and is not in any of the standards.
>     Using -pedantic makes it easier to write portable code, or at least
>     to know when it is not. Best used with the /-std=xxxxx/ argument to
>     the compiler, so that you know what version of the standard you're
>     being compared to. Currently if /-std=xxxxx/ is not specified, it's
>     as if you'd written /-std=gnu++98/. Much of boost uses facilities
>     from more recent versions of the standard, so it might make more
>     sense to explicitly specify /-std=c++0x/ or /-std=gnu++0x/.
>     /-std=c++0x/ is most portable. See the page
>     http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Standards.html for more information.
> 
> What do you think?

Looks good to me (but I'm only a Microsofty ;-)

Paul

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