LKBEN10703: Howto deactivate a warning in microsoft visual studio C/C++ compiler


Symptom

You have a lot of warnings of the same type and do not want these anymore

Cause

none

Solution

To deactivate a compiler warning you can use the #pragma keyword. //this will save the compiler warnings #pragma warning(push) //this will disable the warning 4290 #pragma warning(disable: 4290 ) //and this deactivates the 4786 also #pragma warning(disable: 4786 ) //here comes your C++ code wich will not generate //any 4290 and 4786 warnings anymore //here we restore the warning state we saved in the beginning #pragma warning(pop) //here comes no code or the rest of it, which might //generate the 4290 and 4786 if it was defined before the push

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About the Author

Author: Wim Peeters - Keskon GmbH & Co. KG

Wim Peeters is electronics engineer with an additional master in IT and over 30 years of experience, including time spent in support, development, consulting, training and database administration. Wim has worked with SQL Server since version 6.5. He has developed in C/C++, Java and C# on Windows and Linux. He writes knowledge base articles to solve IT problems and publishes them on the Lubby Knowledge Platform.