I only know the Java basics but now I came across this thing called a supresswarning, I've seen it before but I never knew what it meant.
Can someone explain it? I tried to google the answer but I had some trouble understanding it.
Thanks
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What exactly are supresswarnings?
I only know the Java basics but now I came across this thing called a supresswarning, I've seen it before but I never knew what it meant.
Can someone explain it? I tried to google the answer but I had some trouble understanding it.
Thanks
Last edited by kaskoepoes112; June 15th, 2014 at 04:29 AM. Reason: for some reason I put a random "because" in the 2nd line
Re: What exactly are supresswarnings?
It may differ from language to language but in C at least a suppressed warning is
a warning that is sort of "in hiding". When the program compiles and translates the
source code into machine code - it checks over the source before finishing the
translation. If it finds a syntax error - you get a compilation error. If it checks through
your code and finds something that "could" be wrong - it gives you a warning.
Sometimes the warnings it issues are suppressed because an event that could happen in the code
has not yet happened. The warning sits in the interpreter and while the code is being executed
it may or may not appear visible to the programmer. One common example of this type of warning
is a runtime exception which is an error in itself, but will only appear once something has been
over-written in memory that should not have been.
Best way I can explain it without being too technical.
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kaskoepoes112 (June 15th, 2014)
Re: What exactly are supresswarnings?
Your java compiler will generate warnings in certain situations, for example when you use a generic class but you dont specify a generic class type parameter.
Oftentimes you should read these warnings and try to solve the problem they are referring to. They are, in general, very useful.
But sometimes they might be "wrong", because the compiler is not very smart. Maybe there is no other way around because you work with an old API. Maybe the alternative would be much more complicated and error prone.
This does not happen often, but its possible.
This is the reason why you are able to explicitely tell the compiler to ignore a certain problem and supress the warning for that particular instance. It has no other effect. It will only make the compiler shut up.
kaskoepoes112 (June 15th, 2014)
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