From: Peter Dimov (pdimov_at_[hidden])
Date: 2003-03-26 08:56:40
William E. Kempf wrote:
>
> I guess I'm wondering if the official toolsets shouldn't be changed.
> I don't understand why the MSDN indicates it should default to /W2
> while we're seeing it default to what I assume is /W1. But, projects
> created by the IDE default to /W3 (which is also the level
> recommended by the MSDN), so it makes sense to me that we should
> probably do the same? Otherwise, users are likely to see warnings
> that we don't represent in the regression logs.
I agree with the suggestion. The default should be /W3 for VC 6, and /W4
(possibly with some specific warnings disabled) on VC 7+.