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Re: __attribute__ ((deprecated))

Tom Tromey wrote:
> 
> For C and C++, is arbitrary text really needed?  What if we allowed:
> 
>     int foo (int) __attribute__ ((deprecated "bar(int)"));
> 
> ... and then used `printf ("%s is deprecated; use `%s' instead")
> 
> This would solve the i18n problem at the loss of some generality.  Is
> the generality really a requirement?

They would want to be able to mention releases, dates or packages
"only available if QuickTime 53.89 not installed" :-) or there
might be two functions that the developer would have to choose
between.

The situation is actually similar to #warning, which Apple uses
now to warn people about header changes, but which has no way
to be localized.

So the i18n aspect is mildly interesting, but I don't think anybody
will really worry about that until after we translate all the docs
for our 20,000 function API into a language other than English...

Stan
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