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Mori
Mori

Reputation: 272

Suppressing warning C4996: why not working?

Context: I am playing around with spline fitting module of Eigen library. The fit works nice enough, but I do get some warnings (in Visual Studio 2013).

The question: Why am I able to disable some warnings whereas other persist even after they should have been supressed?

More context:
The "well behaved" warning I get is

warning C4714: function 'const Eigen::Matrix Eigen::DenseBase::eval(void) const' marked as __forceinline not inlined

After a bit of research I learned that this indeed comes with using eigen code. As I prefer not to produce warnings, 

 #pragma warning(disable : 4714)

works nicely to suppress it.

The "naughty" warning is 

warning C4996: 'std::_Partial_sum2': Function call with parameters that may be unsafe - this call relies on the caller to check that the passed values are correct. To disable this warning, use -D_SCL_SECURE_NO_WARNINGS. See documentation on how to use Visual C++ 'Checked Iterators'
originating in ChordLengths function of eigen. This one, however, does not let itself be suppressed with 
#pragma warning(disable : 4996)
(and I am quite sure there is no problem in spacing or such as the above 4714 works nicely), neither does work

#define _SCL_SECURE_NO_WARNINGS
#define _CRT_SECURE_NO_WARNINGS

or anything from this thread or all the other similar threads.


Why is that? Do I overlook something obvious?

For now I 'solved' the issue in a rather ugly way: I have rewritten the ChordLengths function into my code replacing the problematic line

std::partial_sum(chord_lengths.data(), chord_lengths.data()+n,chord_lengths.data());

with a version of my own. I dislike this approach, but it solves the problem. Still, I would prefer to understand why nothing I tried to suppress the warning worked.

Bonus: How do I actually supress the warning?

Upvotes: 8

Views: 2921

Answers (2)

user1721368
user1721368

Reputation: 37

@Mori (Sorry, it seems I have too few reputation points to add a comment!)

For me, having trouble with sprintf (etc.) warnings, #pragma warning(disable : 4996) needs to be placed after #include "stdafx.h"

Upvotes: 2

Mori
Mori

Reputation: 272

Solved thanks to WhozCraig

Solution: The warning suppression needs to be placed before any includes, as some of them apparently include eigen too.

Upvotes: 1

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