Tailoring warnings

[Yang Zhang]

Baurzhan Ismagulov wrote:
> Hello Yang,
> 
> On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 02:59:11AM -0500, Yang Zhang wrote:
>> Can gcc restrict certain warnings to exclude certain files or to apply  
>> only to certain files?  E.g., I'd like to have -Wold-style-cast,  
>> -Wconversion, and some others to apply only to my own code, and not  
>> (say) boost headers.  (I do use -Werror.)
> 
> I don't think it's possible since the headers are included first by the
> pre-processor, and then the compiler generates warnings / errors.
> 
> With kind regards,

The preprocessor does annotate its output with information regarding 
what original source line/file the output line originated from.  And if 
nothing else, gcc's errors/warnings *do* specify the original source 
line/file.
-- 
Yang Zhang
http://www.mit.edu/~y_z/