[FIXED] How to suppress a warning in clang++?

Issue

I compiled the following c++ program:

 int main() {  2==3;  }

with:

clang++-5.0 -std=c++17 -Wunused-comparison prog.cpp

and got the warning:

warning: equality comparison result unused [-Wunused-comparison]
2==3;
~^~~

... so, probably this is not the correct way to suppress a warning in CLANG.

In the clang manual, this part is a "TODO".

What is the correct command-line flag to disable a warning?

Solution

In the clang diagnostic that you get from:

$ cat main.cpp
int main()
{
    2==3;
    return 0;
}

$ clang++ -c main.cpp
main.cpp:3:6: warning: equality comparison result unused [-Wunused-comparison]
    2==3;
    ~^~~
1 warning generated.

the bracketed:

-Wunused-comparison

tells you that -Wunused-comparison is the enabled warning (in this case enabled by default) that was responsible for the diagnostic. So to suppress the diagnostic you explicitly disable that warning with the matching -Wno-... flag:

$ clang++ -c -Wno-unused-comparison main.cpp; echo Done
Done

The same applies for GCC.

In general, it is reckless to suppress warnings. One should rather enable them generously - -Wall -Wextra [-pedantic] - and then fix offending code.

Answered By - Mike Kinghan

Answer Checked By - Marie Seifert (PHPFixing Admin)