Re: [boost] Showstopper for Boost 1.56?

Subject: Re: [boost] Showstopper for Boost 1.56?
From: Niall Douglas (s_sourceforge_at_[hidden])
Date: 2014-07-30 09:21:14

On 30 Jul 2014 at 8:23, Vladimir Prus wrote:

> > That's great news, now we know the cause of the spew!
> >
> > This is definitely a showstopper for Boost 1.56, megabytes of warning
> > spew on clang would be embarrassing for an official release. Bug is
> > filed at:
> >
> > https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/ticket/10276
> 
> I suppose this is unfortunate all round - in particular using -Wno-c99-extensions is way
> wider than the warning we're trying to suppress here.
> 
> In either case, for a simple change like this, a pull request might be better than
> an issue.

An alternative could be if Edward wraps the appropriate parts of 
Preprocessor with:

#pragma GCC diagnostic ignored "-Wc99-extensions"

iff building with clang.

I believe clang supports these pragma filters.

Niall

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