On Aug 10, 2011, at 9:18 AM, news.gmane.com wrote:
> I am a bit surprised about a problem with compiling Wireshark 1.6.0 with
> Visual Studio 2005 for Win32. Some dissectors have assignments from 64 to 32
> bit, what will issue a warning C4244 by the compiler. Since the -WX
> parameter is passed to the compiler, the compilation fails. The warning
> level /W3 will not suppress the warning C4244 but /W2 would do.
...
> Why did this pass the compilation at wireshark.org?
The wireshark.org buildbot is running "Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0"; I'm not sure how that translates to Microsoft's year-based version scheme, but perhaps it's a different version of VS than VS 2005, and perhaps that version doesn't catch that if run with -WX and /W3.
