Geoff Chappell - Software Analyst
/Wnumber
The required argument consists of whatever follows immediately within the same command-line token, else is the whole of the next command-line token if this token does not begin with a hyphen or forward slash.
The argument is formally numeric. Values greater than 4 are coerced to 1, with a warning (D4014).
The /W option overrides earlier instances of itself (and is overridden by later instances). A first instance, /W1, is provided by CL as an initial option.
Additionally,
This option passes to both the front-end and back-end compilers (C1, C1XX and C2).