On 10 January 2011 23:44, Patrick Horgan wrote: > On 01/10/2011 01:35 PM, Patrick Horgan wrote: >> >> I'm documenting the use of the diagnostic pragmas: >> >> |#pragma GCC diagnostic |kind option >> |#pragma GCC diagnostic push| >> |#pragma GCC diagnostic pop| >> >> on a boost page talking about how developers might deal with gcc warnings >> and was wondering how to figure out what test I could put into a #if that >> would avoid trying to use these pragmas in releases that did not support >> them yet. >> >> Something like: >> >> #if defined(__GNUC__) >> #pragma GCC diagnostic push >> #pragma GCC diagnostic ignored "-Wformat" >> #endif >> >> // code here that generates a spurious warning controlled by -Wformat >> >> #if defined(__GNUC__) >> #pragma GCC diagnostic pop >> #endif > > My understanding is that: > pragma GCC system_header > is usable for releases 4 and greater, but that prior to 4.6, it had to be at > file scope and then affected from that point forward. At 4.6 and later it > will be able to be inserted anywhere in the file. It's worked since 3.0, maybe earlier. I don't know of any change in semantics in 4.6, but I might have missed something. > pragma GCC diagnostic <warning|error|ignored> "-WSOMETYPEOFWARNING" > is usable at 4.1 or 4.2? and had to be put at file scope and affected from 4.2 > that point forward. At 4.6 and later it can be put at any line in the file. I think that's right. > pragma GCC diagnostic <push|pop> > Not available until 4.6 and can be put at any point in the file. Right. > Is all that right? > > So what preprocessor tests can be used so that with -Wall which turns on > -Wunknown-pragma I won't get warnings about unknown pragmas? __GNUC__ and __GNUC_MINOR__ http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/cpp/Common-Predefined-Macros.html
