How to disable GCC warnings for a few lines of code

Matt Joiner picture Matt Joiner · Jul 31, 2010 · Viewed 140.3k times · Source

In Visual C++, it's possible to use #pragma warning (disable: ...). Also I found that in GCC you can override per file compiler flags. How can I do this for "next line", or with push/pop semantics around areas of code using GCC?

Answer

Matt Joiner picture Matt Joiner · Aug 3, 2010

It appears this can be done. I'm unable to determine the version of GCC that it was added, but it was sometime before June 2010.

Here's an example:

#pragma GCC diagnostic error "-Wuninitialized"
    foo(a);         /* error is given for this one */
#pragma GCC diagnostic push
#pragma GCC diagnostic ignored "-Wuninitialized"
    foo(b);         /* no diagnostic for this one */
#pragma GCC diagnostic pop
    foo(c);         /* error is given for this one */
#pragma GCC diagnostic pop
    foo(d);         /* depends on command line options */