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Asked: 2026-05-28T03:59:57+00:00

After writing an answer to this question which displays the solution at compile time

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After writing an answer to this question which displays the solution at compile time with an error, I wondered if it was possible to get a warning instead and finish compilation (as is actually specified in the question).

While diagnostics in general are compiler-dependant, it’s pretty obvious for some code that an error will get triggered (such as accessing a non-existent member or trying to instantiate an object of incomplete type).

The same can’t be said for warnings though, since these tend to differ a great deal between compilers. Even though it’s reasonable to assume that warnings triggered with GCC will also get triggered with Clang, the same can not be said for Visual C++.

Question:
Which warnings, if any, will consistently get triggered on all three mentioned compilers?

/W3 on VC++ and -Wall on GCC & Clang may be assumed.

Note that this is not only useful for that question, but may be useful for triggering a warning for user-defined messages aswell.

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  1. Editorial Team

    This should work on MSVC, GCC, and Clang:

    #pragma message("hello world")

    Not very useful, but still works.

    These picked up warnings too:

    • unused variable
    • unused label
    • large values e.g. (1 << 128)
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