Yes, that is one approach that may be useful for some more esoteric warnings. All current compilers also have mechanisms to selectively ignore warnings via pra

Yes, that is one approach that may be useful for some more esoteric warnings. All current compilers also have mechanisms to selectively ignore warnings via pragmas, like '#pragma GCC diagnostic ignored "-Wfoo"' in clang and GCC, which can be used to suppress instances of false positives of otherwise useful warnings. https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Diagnostic-Pragmas.html https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Diagnostic-Pragmas.html http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa273936.aspx http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa273936.aspx IMHO not using -Werror is just inexcusable.