Gennaro Prota wrote:
Jon Biggar wrote: Speaking in general --not about the specific usages spotted here by gcc, which I haven't examined-- there are some cases where C-style casts can't do any harm,
Other than perhaps to encouraging code written in a modern-style. :)
and some where they have been used because of compiler deficiencies (at least one of the latter is in bitset_test.hpp, though it's adequately commented).
Yes, I had wondered about compiler deficiencies. I'm a bit surprised that boost doesn't already have "broken compiler" macros for each of the new-style casts anyway.
For the rest, I think you're seeing the hair and not the beam, so to speak.
It's hard to find the beam in my own code when I need to sift through all that hair from the boost headers. :) Seriously, the problem with warnings in headers is that you see them over and over and over and over...all in one compile. -- Jon Biggar jon@floorboard.com jon@biggar.org jonbiggar@gmail.com