Re: General search for symbols...

[Zack Weinberg <zack at codesourcery dot com>]

Joe Buck <jbuck at synopsys dot com> writes:

> Zack writes:
>> Note that as of 3.3 GCC no longer supports <varargs.h>, although there
>> are still vestiges of the old code for it.
>
> We should have a mention of that (together with any other deprecated
> features not already mentioned) on
>
> http://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-3.3/changes.html 

Done.  (I misspoke; it was only removed in 3.4, although it doesn't
make a lot of sense to use <varargs.h> with 3.3 which dropped
-traditional.)

zw

===================================================================
Index: gcc-3.4/changes.html
--- gcc-3.4/changes.html	6 Apr 2003 15:18:53 -0000	1.18
+++ gcc-3.4/changes.html	10 Apr 2003 05:33:19 -0000
@@ -22,6 +22,11 @@
     <li>GCC no longer accepts the options <code>-fvolatile</code>,
 	<code>-fvolatile-global</code> and <code>-fvolatile-static</code>.
 	It is unlikely that they worked correctly in any 3.x release.</li>
+    <li>GCC no longer supports the use of <code>&lt;varargs.h&gt;</code>
+        and does not provide this header with the distribution.  Use
+        <code>&lt;stdarg.h&gt;</code> instead.  (This header is primarily
+        useful with traditional mode compilation, which feature was removed
+        in GCC 3.3.)
   </ul>
 
 <h2>General Optimizer Improvements</h2>