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Re: pragma-like warning turn off ?
Robert Dewar <dewar@adacore.com> writes:
> Ian Lance Taylor wrote:
>
> > It's fairly difficult. You want a way to turn off specific warnings
> > for specific parts of the IR. The IR is combined and rearranged
> > during optimization, so you need to figure out how to make the warning
> > control track those changes.
>
> A simpler approach, used in the GNAT front end, is to keep a list of
> the warning on/off pragmas. Warnings are not output as they are
> generated but rather stored for later output.
>
> Then after the compilation has completed, the warnings are sorted
> and generated, consulting the pragma list to see if they should
> be suppressed. This approach avoids the problems cited above
> entirely.
Nice.
Let's do that.
Ian