Boost wiki - revised Boost guidance for authors on Warnings - RFC
As promised at the end of a long (hijacked!) thread on 'Warnings' http://boost.2283326.n4.nabble.com/Current-Guidance-on-Compiler-Warnings-td4... starting from a query by Brian Kuhl of Wind River on Boost's policy on compiler warnings, I have spent some time revising the previous guidance document on Trac that I edited many years ago. This was a long and tedious task as Markdown, as most conveniently used on Github, is rather different from the mark-up language on Trac, leaving me slightly in fumble mode :-( I have made some updates en passant, but there is still much to do updating for the much improved granularity of warning suppression and perhaps more about other code improvement tools like Lint, UBSan. The overall structure leaves a lot to be desired, but I don't want to put any more work into this without some encouragement that it will prove useful. I have posted the result of my efforts on https://github.com/boostorg/boost/wiki/Guidelines:-Warnings and I am as promised I am starting this new thread on warning for your comments, corrections, condemnations etc. HTH Paul --- Paul A. Bristow Prizet Farmhouse Kendal UK LA8 8AB +44 (0) 1539 561830
On 1/8/19 07:19, Paul A. Bristow via Boost wrote:
As promised at the end of a long (hijacked!) thread on 'Warnings'
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I have posted the result of my efforts on
https://github.com/boostorg/boost/wiki/Guidelines:-Warnings
and I am as promised I am starting this new thread on warning for your comments, corrections, condemnations etc.
HTH
Paul
Thank you for putting this together Paul. I'm looking forward to reading through it. michael -- Michael Caisse Ciere Consulting ciere.com
On Tue, Jan 8, 2019, 18:20 Paul A. Bristow via Boost-users < boost-users@lists.boost.org wrote: <...>
I have posted the result of my efforts on
https://github.com/boostorg/boost/wiki/Guidelines:-Warnings
and I am as promised I am starting this new thread on warning for your comments, corrections, condemnations etc.
Please add a "quick guide for the impatient" that describes the policies shortly, without any motivations. Also please add a notes on the boost build feature <warnings-as-errors>on (you can find its description somewhere here https://boostorg.github.io/build/tutorial.html ) While describing the UBSAN beware of its issues: blacklists are a little bit broken https://bugs.llvm.org/show_bug.cgi?id=40132 and errors will be silently ignored without -fno-sanitize-recover=undefined
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Antony Polukhin
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Michael Caisse
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Paul A. Bristow