When warnings attack

[JAnderson]

Bill Baxter wrote:
> Just saw this on John Ratcliff's Code Suppository 
> http://codesuppository.blogspot.com/
> 
> """
> When Microsoft released Visual Studio 2005 and had the unmitigated gall 
> to issue a warning message for 'printf' I about blew a gasket. Now my 
> code is littered with '#pragma warning(disable:4996)' to prevent VS2005 
> from throwing warnings everywhere for 100% perfectly ANSII C compliant 
> code!!!!!!!!!!
> """
> 
> I haven't done much with VS2005 yet, because I found it to be rather 
> more slow and bloated than VS2003, and they yet again changed all the 
> key bindings around for no apparently good reason.  And yeh, the "you 
> must use our new and improved secure standard library" warning messages 
> are annoying too.   I think that's what John is referring to there.
> 
> --bb

Why not just disable the warning in the compiler settings if you don't 
agree with it.  Are there some cases where you want that warning?

-Joel