Re: [Boost-users] VS2012 C4503 warning (decorated name length exceeded, name was truncated) with boost 1.52

Subject: Re: [Boost-users] VS2012 C4503 warning (decorated name length exceeded, name was truncated) with boost 1.52
From: Richard (legalize+jeeves_at_[hidden])
Date: 2013-03-08 16:29:02

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I wrote:
>> Any suggestions?

Paul Bristow spake the secret code
<006a01ce1a55$60541ab0$20fc5010$@hetp.u-net.com> thusly:
>https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/wiki/Guidelines/WarningsGuidelines

Thanks, this is a good starting point.

>The general idea is to bracket warning-disables around things that the
>Boost author has decided are
>unhelpful warnings - for each compiler.

That's what I was expecting to happen.

>If you think that the Boost author has not disabled and restored, or not
>restored the warning level
>after doing his bit, you could submit a ticket 'complaining'
>
>https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/newticket
>
>But don't expect a quick response on what many regard as a trivial issue
>- though when you get hit
>with a blizzard of warnings, it may seem less than trivial to you ;-)

The documentation says that this warning should be issued at the
default warning level (/W1) and higher.

The odd thing is that if we compile with the default warning level, we
don't see this warning.

If we compile at a higher warning level, such as /W3, then we see the
warning.

My expectation is that boost was suppressing this warning (hence, why
we didn't see it at /W1) and I was thinking that our /W3 must somehow
be overriding the boost suppression.

I guess I will have to dig further into the resource you supplied and
see what I can find out.  I'd come across Geoff Chappell's site before
and thought it useful, so thanks for reminding me of it again via the
boost page you cited.
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