Re: [Boost-users] [general] MSVC71 Warnings Off?

From: Cory Nelson (phrosty_at_[hidden])
Date: 2006-08-15 22:19:52

On 8/15/06, Wu Yinghui, Freddie <yhwu_at_[hidden]> wrote:
> > On 8/14/06, Wu Yinghui, Freddie <yhwu_at_[hidden]> wrote:
> >> Hi all,
> >>
> >> I guess this question could have been asked before. But I've failed to
> >> find an answer from my basic search from the web so far. So please try
> >> to bear with me if it is old stuff.
> >>
> >> Our development environment is using MSVC71 at the moment, and our
> >> coding standard requires warning level 4 and 64-bit compatiblity check
> >> of the compiler. But whenever I use some of the Boost library headers
> >> (most notably Boost.Function, Boost.Integer and Boost.uBLAS for now, and
> >> we have not started using most of the other libraries yet), there are
> >> tons of warnings from the compiler.
> >>
> >> As our development team view compiler warnings as important signs of
> >> potential problems in our own code, we'd like to suppress warnings from
> >> Boost headers (assuming that they are at least better tested than our
> >> code).
> >>
> >> So my question is: Is there a way for us to suppress warnings from Boost
> >> headers without affecting the warning level significantly on our own
> >> code?
> >
> > This will make vc++ treat a header with warning level 3:
> >
> > #pragma warning(push, 3)
> >
> > #include <some/boost/header.hpp>
> >
> > #pragma warning(pop)
> >
> Thanks for your quick reply. I knew this trick. But what I want is
> probably some more elegant ways of doing this. (It seems quite a bit of
> a trouble since those pragmas will generate lots of warnings when I
> build using gcc. And if I have to surround each of those pragma with
> platform detection macros, it will end up quite a few lines for each of
> my hundred header/source files.)
>
> Any easier-to-adopt ideas? :)

I usually end up using precompiled headers, and do it to a big block
of boost includes at once.

> Cheer,
>
> Freddie
>
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