Re: [boost] Current Guidance on Compiler Warnings?

Hi Daniela,

On 20. Nov 2018, at 20:14, Daniela Engert via Boost wrote:

Am 19.11.2018 um 20:20 schrieb Brian Kuhl via Boost:

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Many of our customers make certified systems ( Planes, Trains, Medical Equipment, Factory Automation, etc. ) and the trend in theses industries is to be pedantic about eliminating all compiler warnings.

I run our in-house Boost distribution with the same policy (geared towards Visual Studio). It took me tons of work over several years to get there but during the process of auditing every warning (and dealing with it one way or the other) I actually found errors. Beyond that, the tests have to pass not only in debug build like the test matrix does but also in release build, plus both 32 bit and 64 bit. Each one of the four modes exhibits different sets of warnings and errors in some libraries. Some libraries are poster-childs of careful programming, others - even new ones - less so.

That may sound egregious but this is how we develop our software for industrial QA machines.

just for my curiosity, are you regularly merging these changes back upstream into Boost or do you maintain a list of patches to apply to each new Boost release? Best regards, Hans