How to disable "enumeration value not explicitly handled in switch" just for one block of switch case?

Question

Can you tell me how to disable the compiler/codemodel warning for just one block of switch/case?

In general, I think it is very useful to be warned, but here it complains about 167 enumeration values not explicitly handled in the switch.

I found this other question:

c++ warning: enumeration value not handled in switch [-Wswitch]

It says that you can get rid of the warning with default: break; but in this case (recent QtCreator with clang) this does not apply.

I know I could change the code to if/else if/else if .. but I expect the list of handled cases will grow with time, so I'd prefer to stay with switch/case.

So, my question is, is there any keyword/macro/comment/attribute that says ignore the issue for just this single block?

The following code produces the warning, the other 167 values seem to be the possible return values of QEvent::type(), which are part of Qt:

bool MyClass::event(QEvent * e) {
    switch(e->type()) {
    case QEvent::HoverEnter:
        qDebug() << "enter"; 
        return true;
    case QEvent::HoverLeave:
        qDebug() << "leave"; 
        return true;
    case QEvent::HoverMove:
        qDebug() << "move"; 
        return true;
    default:
        break;
    }
    return Piece::event(e);
}

isnt this the advantage of using a `switch` ? when "the list of handled cases will grow with time" you cannot easily miss one because you get that warning. Can you show a [mcve]? would be interesting to see why `default` doesnt help — 463035818_is_not_an_ai, Oct 23 '18 at 18:41
i guess what makes the difference is the "explicitly". You do handle all cases, but not explicitly — 463035818_is_not_an_ai, Oct 23 '18 at 19:01
@user463035818: can you explain what you mean? I only want to handle three cases for now, later maybe 10 or 20, but in total there are about 170 and most of them I'll never need. — user2567875, Oct 23 '18 at 19:03
i think you are confusing `-Wswitch` and `-Wswitch-enum`. The other question is about the first and can be silenced by a `default`, the warning about the "not explicitly handled case" is from the second. I think you just need enable the first and disable the second. — 463035818_is_not_an_ai, Oct 23 '18 at 19:05
see eg here: https://clang.llvm.org/docs/DiagnosticsReference.html#w-warnings — 463035818_is_not_an_ai, Oct 23 '18 at 19:06
maybe i confused the two, but how can i disable it only for this one switch, and keep it enabled for all others? — user2567875, Oct 23 '18 at 19:07
[this](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/20078941/how-to-use-pragma-clang-diagnostics) is not really a dupe, but the question has the answer — 463035818_is_not_an_ai, Oct 23 '18 at 19:13
thanks a lot! works with pragma and "-Wswitch", I'll add it to the question — user2567875, Oct 23 '18 at 19:19
you can post an answer to your own question. I am not familiar with clang and wasnt in the mood to find out to be sure enough to write an answer, but imho your edit should be rather an answer — 463035818_is_not_an_ai, Oct 23 '18 at 20:23

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Oct 23 '18 at 23:37

As pointed out in comment by user463035818 the message can be disabled for specific part of code by adding #pragma:

bool MyClass::event(QEvent * e) {
    #pragma clang diagnostic push
    #pragma clang diagnostic ignored "-Wswitch"
    switch(e->type()) {
    case QEvent::HoverEnter:
        qDebug() << "enter"; 
        return true;
    case QEvent::HoverLeave:
        qDebug() << "leave"; 
        return true;
    case QEvent::HoverMove:
        qDebug() << "move"; 
        return true;
    default:
        break;
    }
    #pragma clang diagnostic pop
    return Piece::event(e);
}

score 2 · Answer 2 · answered Mar 11 '21 at 21:16

In addition to the accepted answer posted by user2567875, if you are using the GCC build-tool., you can get the same like this:

#pragma GCC diagnostic push
#pragma GCC diagnostic ignored "-Wswitch"
switch(...)
{
...
}
#pragma GCC diagnostic pop

Notice that GCC must be capital.

How to disable "enumeration value not explicitly handled in switch" just for one block of switch case?

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