Changes between Version 6 and Version 7 of Guidelines/WarningsGuidelines

Timestamp:

Oct 29, 2010, 5:34:31 PM (12 years ago)

Author:

Paul A. Bristow

Comment:

Add note about limit to number of push'n'pops.

Guidelines/WarningsGuidelines

@@ -160 +160 @@
 to the package as possible so that users can still get warnings from *their code*.
 
-For MSVC, this involves pushing to save the current warning state, disabling the warning, and later popping to restore (abbreviated as ''push'n'pop'').
+For MSVC, this involves pushing to save the current warning state, disabling the warning, and later popping to restore (abbreviated as ''push'n'pop''). See [@http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/2c8f766e%28v=VS.100%29.aspx warnings]
+
+'''BUT''' there is a limit to how many times (56) this can be used, so it is always much better to 'fix' than to suppress warnings.
+
+"The compiler only supports up to 56 #pragma warning statements in a compiland"
+
+This limit may be reached in practice with Boost code.
+
 {{{
 #if defined(_MSC_VER)