AMDG Simonson, Lucanus J wrote:
Steven Watanabe wrote:
I ran the test with most of the compilers I have available. I'm getting a lot of compiler warnings from msvc-9.0express, msvc-8.0express, and gcc-3.4.4. gcc-4.2.3, gcc-4.3.0, and gcc-mingw-4.4.1 are fine.
I'm aware of the warnings in MSVC. How important is it to fix these warnings?
Well, msvc is pretty widely used. I wouldn't say that you have to fix them, but I would strongly encourage it. gcc 3.4 is sufficiently old, that I wouldn't worry about it much.
What is boost policy and precident?
Boost has no official policy. Some libraries are warning-free. Others are fairly noisy, although the older libraries are slowly getting cleaned up as users complain.
I am well aware that I will catch no end of grief from users if they get a slew of warnings. I have no internal MSVC users, but I've spent days chasing warnings for EDG and gcc.
In Christ, Steven Watanabe