Closed Bug 326912 Opened 18 years ago Closed 18 years ago

Warnings about deprecation (C4996) when compiling firefox with VC8 express

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(Firefox Build System :: General, enhancement)

x86
Windows XP
enhancement
Not set
normal

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(Not tracked)

RESOLVED FIXED

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(Reporter: regis.caspar+bz, Assigned: benjamin)

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User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9a1) Gecko/20060211 Firefox/1.6a1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9a1) Gecko/20060211 Firefox/1.6a1

cl.exe issues lots of useless warnings that can be avoided by defining _CRT_SECURE_NO_DEPRECATE and _CRT_NONSTDC_NO_DEPRECATE


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. compile firefox with msvc 8 express edition

Actual Results:  
lots of warnings like
"warning C4996: 'strcpy' was declared deprecated
   Message: 'This function or variable may be unsafe. Consider using strcpy_s instead. To disable deprecation, use _CRT_SECURE_NO_DEPRECATE. See online help for details.'"

Expected Results:  
No warning

Note: when using 
CFLAGS="-D_CRT_SECURE_NO_DEPRECATE -D_CRT_NONSTDC_NO_DEPRECATE"
CXXFLAGS="-D_CRT_SECURE_NO_DEPRECATE -D_CRT_NONSTDC_NO_DEPRECATE"
CPPFLAGS="-D_CRT_SECURE_NO_DEPRECATE -D_CRT_NONSTDC_NO_DEPRECATE"
environement variables warning are issued only when building nss
more descriptive summary
Summary: Warnings when compiling firefox with VC8 express → Warnings about deprecation (C4996) when compiling firefox with VC8 express
Assignee: nobody → benjamin
Status: UNCONFIRMED → NEW
Ever confirmed: true
Attachment #211768 - Flags: review?(vladimir)
Comment on attachment 211768 [details] [diff] [review]
Supress stupid warnings, rev. 1

r=vladimir conditional on review of bug 326849 ;)
Attachment #211768 - Flags: review?(vladimir) → review+
Fixed on trunk.
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 18 years ago
Resolution: --- → FIXED
(In reply to comment #2)
> Supress stupid warnings, rev. 1

Why is a warning that you shouldn't use strcpy stupid?
Product: Core → Firefox Build System
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