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Coverage increased (+0.06%) to 76.029% when pulling 4899662 on MarcelRaad:winbuild_w4 into a548183 on curl:master.

"AppVeyor was unable to build non-mergeable pull request" - no idea what that means and found little info on the internet. I hope that will go away after rebase and force-push.

Coverage decreased (-0.008%) to 75.953% when pulling 19c0336 on MarcelRaad:winbuild_w4 into 59a0fb2 on curl:master.

Original problem disappeared, now it's

fatal: early EOF
fatal: The remote end hung up unexpectedly
fatal: index-pack failed
error: RPC failed; curl 18 transfer closed with outstanding read data remaining
Command exited with code 128

for one of the AppVeyor builds :-(

Give it some time, that seems to occasionally with CI builds, they are overloaded and things slow down to the point where nothing can happen.

I tried this in both VS 2008 and 2010 and I get one real warning which I just fixed and then a bunch of superfluous C4127: conditional expression is constant.

+..\lib\cookie.c(921) : warning C4127: conditional expression is constant
+..\lib\cookie.c(1076) : warning C4127: conditional expression is constant
+..\lib\cookie.c(1077) : warning C4127: conditional expression is constant
+..\lib\cookie.c(1078) : warning C4127: conditional expression is constant
+..\lib\cookie.c(1079) : warning C4127: conditional expression is constant
+..\lib\cookie.c(1080) : warning C4127: conditional expression is constant
+..\lib\cookie.c(1081) : warning C4127: conditional expression is constant
+..\lib\cookie.c(1082) : warning C4127: conditional expression is constant
+..\lib\cookie.c(1083) : warning C4127: conditional expression is constant
+..\lib\url.c(1068) : warning C4127: conditional expression is constant
+..\lib\url.c(3575) : warning C4127: conditional expression is constant
+..\lib\multi.c(943) : warning C4127: conditional expression is constant
+..\lib\multi.c(944) : warning C4127: conditional expression is constant
+..\lib\multi.c(947) : warning C4127: conditional expression is constant
+..\lib\multi.c(948) : warning C4127: conditional expression is constant
+..\lib\select.c(270) : warning C4127: conditional expression is constant
+..\lib\select.c(271) : warning C4127: conditional expression is constant
+..\lib\select.c(276) : warning C4127: conditional expression is constant
+..\lib\select.c(277) : warning C4127: conditional expression is constant
+..\lib\select.c(285) : warning C4127: conditional expression is constant
+..\lib\select.c(286) : warning C4127: conditional expression is constant
+..\lib\select.c(484) : warning C4127: conditional expression is constant
+..\lib\select.c(486) : warning C4127: conditional expression is constant
+..\lib\select.c(488) : warning C4127: conditional expression is constant

So I'm sure those are all while(0 or 1 etc. Depending on how easy it is we could do them all with _pragmas using a macro like WHILE_FALSE or for while(1) use for(;;) since iirc vs doesn't warn for that. The select though is already a macro FD_SET which is defined in winsock and uses while(0), that might not be possible to wrap, older vs is picky about when it applies some __pragmas

Ah, I forgot about that warning :-( I tested with VS 2015 and 2017 with Windows SDK 10, which replaces that warning in the FD_SET macro with C4548 (expression before comma has no effect), which is off by default.

Now I remember that C4127 is also issued with certain libcurl feature combinations because some functions become macros defined to a constant. I'm not sure if it will be easy to catch and change all of them. Maybe we could just suppress it by building with /wd4127, and also for the VS project files? I always compile with

/Wall /WX /wd4127 /wd4255 /wd4548 /wd4668 /wd4710 /wd4711 /wd4774 /wd4820

myself instead of the default /W4 when using the VS project files, 4127 being the only warning which is on by default.

It'd be cool to also make the cmake build generate that warning level, as that would then make the appveyor CI builds run like that and better help us maintain this level!

Coverage decreased (-0.004%) to 75.948% when pulling 87e64ac on MarcelRaad:winbuild_w4 into beb0848 on curl:master.

Maybe we could just suppress it by building with /wd4127, and also for the VS project files?

I think that should be fine but to gather any objections I've taken it to the mailing list first.
https://curl.haxx.se/mail/lib-2017-07/0042.html

Maybe we could just suppress it by building with /wd4127, and also for the VS project files?

ah I see you've already disabled it in winbuild, I'd leave it for now and we'll see if anyone objects on the mailing list. If not I'll add it to the project files as well.

I think that should be fine but to gather any objections I've taken it to the mailing list first.
https://curl.haxx.se/mail/lib-2017-07/0042.html

Thank you! I have to keep in mind the mailing list more.