Re: [boost] [thread] Mass test failures on clang

Subject: Re: [boost] [thread] Mass test failures on clang
From: Andrey Semashev (andrey.semashev_at_[hidden])
Date: 2014-06-09 14:24:08

On Monday 09 June 2014 18:03:51 Vicente J. Botet Escriba wrote:
> Le 09/06/14 17:25, Edward Diener a écrit :
> > On 6/9/2014 7:07 AM, Peter Dimov wrote:
> >> Vicente J. Botet Escriba wrote:
> >>> I would like to, but with the following log, I'm unable to :(
> >> 
> >> There are some non-empty logs, such as
> >> 
> >> http://www.boost.org/development/tests/develop/developer/output/marshall-> >> mac-boost-bin-v2-libs-thread-test-async__async_p-test-clang-darwin-4-2-1-
> >> debug-threading-multi.html
> >> 
> >> 
> >> 
> >> but they are cut short because of the ungodly amount of warnings about
> >> variadic macros.
> > 
> > These warnings can be turned off in gcc, and probably by extension in
> > clang, by using the cxx flag '-Wno-variadic-macros'.
> 
> Is this flag supported on all gcc/clang versions?

I think these warnings are valid. If the code is intended to be compatible 
with C++03, variadic macros should not be used. Otherwise the code or test 
should be disabled.