-----Original Message----- From: boost-bounces@lists.boost.org [mailto:boost-bounces@lists.boost.org] On Behalf Of John Maddock Sent: Friday, November 06, 2009 9:12 AM To: boost@lists.boost.org Subject: Re: [boost] Official warnings policy?
All 13 thousand lines of them from the last build? ;-)
I think this says it all (though build doesn't truly represent the *use* of the headers). This is *NOISE* big-time - and it can't speed building either. And was this using the 'disable Microsoft extensions' options? As always John is right about this - we all need to just fix it. No new stuff should be accepted until it passes warning free, for a start. Paul PS I've also found that some warnings have been useful in finding my bugs. (Warning about while(true) isn't - but it's easily silenced - especially with some saved snippets to paste). Adding static_cast is a nuisance and adds clutter, but it focuses the mind on what might be a bug, and documents that I've thought about it. --- Paul A. Bristow Prizet Farmhouse Kendal, UK LA8 8AB +44 1539 561830, mobile +44 7714330204 pbristow@hetp.u-net.com