{"id":75,"date":"2006-11-06T07:00:25","date_gmt":"2006-11-06T12:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nynaeve.net\/?p=75"},"modified":"2019-12-13T17:39:48","modified_gmt":"2019-12-13T22:39:48","slug":"dont-mind-the-conflicting-advice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.nynaeve.net\/?p=75","title":{"rendered":"Don&#8217;t mind the conflicting advice&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I found this little gem in the VS2005 documentation for \/W4:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Level 4 displays all level 3 warnings plus informational warnings, which in most cases can be safely ignored. <b>This option should be used only to provide &#8220;lint&#8221; level warnings and is not recommended as your usual warning level setting<\/b>.<\/p>\n<p><b>For a new project, it may be best to use \/W4 in all compilations<\/b>. This will ensure the fewest possible hard-to-find code defects.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Whoops.  Time to file a documentation bug.<\/p>\n<p>It is the little inconsistencies like this that really contribute to the perception that MSDN is difficult to understand and use, I think.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I found this little gem in the VS2005 documentation for \/W4: Level 4 displays all level 3 warnings plus informational warnings, which in most cases can be safely ignored. This option should be used only to provide &#8220;lint&#8221; level warnings and is not recommended as your usual warning level setting. For a new project, it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nynaeve.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nynaeve.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nynaeve.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nynaeve.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nynaeve.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=75"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.nynaeve.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":644,"href":"http:\/\/www.nynaeve.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75\/revisions\/644"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nynaeve.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=75"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nynaeve.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=75"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nynaeve.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=75"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}