[Development] [Request] Compiler warnings in Qt

[Olivier Goffart]

On Friday 06 December 2013 09:15:47 Thiago Macieira wrote:
> On sexta-feira, 6 de dezembro de 2013 13:41:34, Olivier Goffart wrote:
> > There used to be a 'compilerwarnings' autotest that made sure there was no
> > warning in the headers (in a more strict ways that the warnings we check
> > while  compiling Qt itself).  But i think it's gone.
> 
> I still have a pending change that compiles each and every public header
> independently -Werror and defining the keywords.
> 
> None of my builds with Clang or GCC have any warnings. There are a few with
> ICC because it's too eager on warning 177 (unused function).
> 
> I have warnings in MSVC's own headers after we started using <algorithms>
> more, so I don't bother with MSVC warnings anymore.

There use to be a compilerwarnings autotest  which was removed in qtqa (commit 
9d078c8f14, the message commit claims it is a duplicate of headersclean, but 
it is not really)

The test was compiling all the public headers with different flags, including 
strict warnings such as -pedantic  -Wold-style-cast -Woverloaded-virtual -  -
Wshadow -Wunreachable-code -Wformat-security and more.
We don't want to be so strict in our own code.  But maybe users want to, and 
so it make sens to compile headers with stricter warnings that the ones of Qt 
itself.  (for example we could add  -Weffc++  there)

-- 
Olivier

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