How to suppress specific warnings in g++

Question

I want to suppress specific warnings from g++. I\'m aware of the -Wno-XXX flag, but I\'m looking for something more specific. I want some of th

Answer 1

Unfortunately, this feature isn't provided by g++. In VC++, you could use #pragma warning to disable some specific warnings. In gcc, the closest you can have is diagnostic pragmas, which let you enable/disable certain types of diagnostics for certain files or projects.

Answer 2

For some warnings, there is a command line switch to disable them. In order to know which switch to use, pass -fdiagnostics-show-option to gcc.

Answer 3

pipe standard error to a filter that removes things you don't want to see. For example, this is my make file:

main.o: main.cpp g++ -c -Wall main.cpp 2>&1 | grep -v Wunused-variable

Answer 4

You could just use grep -v on the output.

Depending on the warning you wish to disable, you can sometimes correct in code. E.g.:

int main()
{
  int i;
}

Generates: foo.cc:4: warning: unused variable 'i'

Whereas this does not:

#define MARKUSED(X)  ((void)(&(X)))

int main()
{
  int i;
  MARKUSED(i);
}