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Upon reviewing our backlog and reviewing the number of votes for this RFE, we do not see adequate interest from the community for this RFE. As a result, this is being rejected.
Due to processing by IBM, this request was reassigned to have the following updated attributes:
Brand - Servers and Systems Software
Product family - Programming Languages
Product - C/C++ Compilers
For recording keeping, the previous attributes were:
Brand - Rational
Product family - Design & development
Product - C/C++ Compilers
This is a valid feature request. RFE will be updated once it has been put into plan.
(This request was entered on my behalf by an IBM employee)
We are currently using -qsuppress and -qflag, but these are second best, because they affect the entire compilation.
What I wish to do is to compile with the strictest reasonable reporting options, but have the ability to suppress warnings locally.
This would for example enable me to encapsulate a possibly dangerous or suspect operation in a function which asserts an error if it fails, while forbidding that operation elsewhere in the code.
This enhancement would not (of course) affect the functionality we can realise, but would enable us to detect errors earlier in the development process. Since we also compile very strictly with DEC C and MSVS, this would be of most value in platform-specific code, but my experience is that most compilers detect a few errors that others do not.