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Re: [RFC] Removing -fpack-struct in C++ for 4.0
- From: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm at polyomino dot org dot uk>
- To: "Aaron W. LaFramboise" <aaronavay62 at aaronwl dot com>
- Cc: Giovanni Bajo <giovannibajo at libero dot it>, gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Fri, 8 Oct 2004 00:06:11 +0000 (UTC)
- Subject: Re: [RFC] Removing -fpack-struct in C++ for 4.0
- References: <129301c4ac58$e18e85d0$dc4e2a97@bagio> <4165D787.9070802@aaronwl.com>
On Thu, 7 Oct 2004, Aaron W. LaFramboise wrote:
> I can't find any information on an official deprecation policy. Perhaps
> there should be one, maybe as part of the release procedure or release
> criteria. If a benign feature is to be removed without a deprecation
> period on the grounds that it appears to be unused, it seems like this
> should be in accord with some agreed on policy.
Removal without deprecation period is generally because a feature turns
out to have been broken for a long time so there can't be users of it
because it doesn't work (or the users are going to stick to their very old
stable compiler version anyway). Past examples include typedef foo = bar
and -fvolatile.
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