CMake should support an API to manage compiler warnings to simplify a common 
problem. Using more compilers with high levels of warnings means cheap static 
analysis and better conformance to standard C++.

Compiler warnings are an easy way to increase program reliability. A use case 
would be to increase compilation warnings on all internal code, ignore warnings 
on all 3rd party code, and treat all warnings as errors.

Attached is an initial attempt to control warnings in CMake. The API has a 
short name (e.g. set_warnings_as_errors) for simplicity and a more technical 
name (e.g. set_warnings_as_errors_folder) to specify scope. Note that the short 
name acts on CMake's folder scope and is meant to be global. The current 
compilers considered are GCC, clang, Green Hills, and MSVC. A CMake Warning is 
issued if the macro does not support a specific compiler so that conformance 
can be guaranteed.

Thanks,
Geoffrey Viola
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