Re: [ANN] Lua 5.2.0 (work1) now available

[David Burgess <dabsoft@...>]

Methinks the simple solution is maybe:

<line of code> /* generates spurious warning with some compilers */

Philippe Lhoste wrote:
> On 11/01/2010 14:54, David Burgess wrote:
> > You can do it individually.
> > At one stage my coding style was to wrap spurious warnings like:
> >
> > #pragma warning( disable : 4514 )
> >
> > <code ... />
> >
> > #pragma warning( enable : 4514 )
> >
> > This also highlights to the programmer that One (hopefully) knows what
> > they are doing. MS use this approach in their SDK code.
> > I cant remember it offhand but I know you can do the same in GCC
>
> I would be cleaner to put options to disable warnings in the make files, 
> no?
> Otherwise, you will get code riddled with compiler-dependent pragmas, 
> which looks quite ugly for code that aims to be super-portable...
> On the other hand, we loose the precision above (disable only for a 
> region of code), but well, we can suppose Lua's coders know what they do 
> in general... :)