Suppressing specific compiler warnings

[Phil Edwards]

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On Wed, May 26, 2004 at 01:17:36PM -0600, llewelly@xmission.com wrote:
> > 
> > And then have option like -Wno-<number>... Something quite similar 
> > to the HP compilers!
> 
> Numbers are for computers. Names for people. A generalization,
>     but I am opposed to numbering warning kinds, on the
>     grounds that numbers tend to be harder to remember. If you are
>     reading a makefile, and you see -Wno-1492, you have no clue why,
>     but if you see -Wno-unused you know what is going on.

I tend to agree.


> > Also, this would make the process of internationalization of gcc/g++
> > easy.
> 
> Pardon my ignorance, but how so?

With numbers, the only string that needs to be translated is "no-".  With
names, they /all/ need meaningful translations.

I still think names would be more appropriate.


Phil

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