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Re: PATCH: Make good on deprecation threat
- From: Loren James Rittle <rittle at latour dot rsch dot comm dot mot dot com>
- To: libstdc++ at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Mon, 30 Dec 2002 17:23:46 -0600 (CST)
- Subject: Re: PATCH: Make good on deprecation threat
- Organization: Networks and Infrastructure Lab (IL02/2240), Motorola Labs
In article <20021230140033.A1926@disaster.jaj.com> you write:
> These extensions were deprecated in 3.2 for removal in 3.4, and documented
> as such. Couldn't even get to them without specifically enabling deprecated
> library stuff. I think it's time that they go away. [...]
> This function was also guarded by "#ifdef _GLIBCPP_DEPRECATED", so users
> should be expecting its removal. (I'm not sure how it's showing up in
> the binary library...)
> Comments, anyone?
I think your patch is safe. Users that added _GLIBCPP_DEPRECATED
really knew what they were doing. It was not easy to accidentally
bootstrap and install a library so configured (this would be the usual
test that I keep in mind when thinking about such changes).
Regards,
Loren