for(;
is the proper way. while(TRUE) or while(1) is convoluted. What is
TRUE? What is 1? I consider it sloppy programming. I would rather see a
goto than while (TRUE).
I think most projects I have worked on, developers use /w3. It drives me
crazy. I have seen countless project where code ships with hundreds of
warnings.
BTW: I prefer the word recalcitrant to cantankerous 
On Fri, Apr 24, 2015 at 8:55 PM, Marion Bond wrote:
> IMHO it is much easier to simply define the non-obvious MACRO
> while(true) to eliminate the warnings; but then I am irrationally
> prejudiced against for loops (except the .NET for each next kind)
>
> The more annoying problem is casting function pointers because the
> signatures differ by const qualifiers. Generic function pointer types
> don’t include them, but often the actual function definition does and that
> causes a type mismatch. It seems wrong that the compiler should complain
> when a callee enforces a more rigorous contract than a caller demands
>
> Sent from Surface Pro
>
> From: Maxim S. Shatskih
> Sent: Friday, April 24, 2015 6:25 PM
> To: Windows System Software Devs Interest List
>
> > I was pleased to see that the WDK defaults /W4. Many devs simply find
> /W4 too cantankerous to
> >deal with.
>
> I think /W4 /WX is a must beyound doubt, even if some stuff from it should
> be suppressed by #pragmas.
>
> The Greek-like word of “cantankerous”, looking like a Bysantine emperor
> family name, surely enriches my English knowledge
>
> >Unreferenced parameters,
>
> So what? C has no C++ elegant way of dealing with them, but it has
> UNREFERENCED_PARAMETER() macro.
>
> >and invariant expressions in a “while” statement
>
> Use for(; instead.
>
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