On 10/08/2011 18:00, Guy Harris wrote:
> On Aug 10, 2011, at 9:18 AM, news.gmane.com wrote:
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>> 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.
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>> 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.
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VC 9.0 aka VS 2008. VS 2005 is also known as VC 8.0. Wikipedia has a table
listing the version names at
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Visual_Studio#Version_history.
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Regards,
Graham Bloice
