Questions tagged [warnings]
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Waiting until end of project to remove commented out code, remove unused code, and resolve compiler warnings
A co-worker of mine is working on project solo but would still like to have other team members review their code upon reaching certain milestones. Unfortunately, they also want to wait until the end ...
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Is it really good idea to disable warning of C or Cpp? [duplicate]
When we are working on a big project of C or CPP, we are getting some warning. Therefore, we try to remove that warning because when we see compiler warnings that they make us feel dirty. When we ...
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1 answer
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Capturing warnings when batch processing is ignored
My client has a process which iterates over a number of actions that may or may not apply to a users portfolio. Quite frequently, processing of an action may give up and jump to the next action or ...
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Is a compiler warning for 64bit to 32bit `size_t` truncation actually useful?
I have been looking at VC++'s C4267: Compiler Warning (level 3) C4267 'var' : conversion from 'size_t' to 'type', possible loss of data The compiler detected a conversion from size_t to a ...
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Is it a good practice to use suppress warnings in your code?
I use @SuppressWarnings("unchecked") and @SuppressWarnings("null") mostly above methods to let the code compile without any warnings but I have my doubts. Found this Stackoverflow question. Jon Skeet ...
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Why am I getting field visibility warnings in Sonar?
Some static analysis tools flag non-private fields with Variable '[nameHere]' must be private and have accessor methods. Sonar consistently presents such warnings and wants to change all protected ...
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2 answers
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How much warnings in C to enable?
This is a tiny project of about 2000LOC. It is being compiled with -Wall. Now, I tried adding -Wextra. Two things happened: Some minor but valid warnings popped up, e.g. Comparing signed with unsigned ...
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How to deal with warnings in a legacy project
I work on a C++ project that generates bajillions of warnings. Most of the warnings appeared after the code was written: Initially the project used Visual C++ 8, soon switching to 9, but there is ...
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