Warnings in the C++ Front-End and GCC in General

[Frederick W. Wheeler]

Perhaps egcs could provide the ability to control warnings in certain
regions of source code with a language extension instead of command
line arguments or pragmas.  I put a simple example below that
emphasises my desire to simply turn off all warnings until the
compiler is through with the system headers.

It is easier to use macros to manipulate a language extension to
control warnings than it is to manipulate pragmas.

Fred Wheeler

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#if defined(__GNUC__) && ! defined(__STDC__)
#define WARNCTL(str) _gcc_warning_control(str)
#else
#define WARNCTL(str)
#end

WARNCTL("push")              // save current warning on/off status
WARNCTL("off all")           // turn off all warnings
#include <system_headers>
WARNCTL("pop")               // revert to original warning on/off status

int main()
{
  // ...
}
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