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Re: Removal of pre-ISO C++ items from include/backwards

From: Gerald Pfeifer <gerald at pfeifer dot com>
To: Gabriel Dos Reis <gdr at cs dot tamu dot edu>
Cc: Joe Buck <Joe dot Buck at synopsys dot COM>, Mark Mitchell <mark at codesourcery dot com>, Richard Guenther <rguenther at suse dot de>, gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org, libstdc++ at gcc dot gnu dot org
Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2007 23:10:07 +0200 (CEST)
Subject: Re: Removal of pre-ISO C++ items from include/backwards
References: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0710191706000.4086@zhemvz.fhfr.qr> <471FE40C.7000103@codesourcery.com> <20071025040017.GA17330@synopsys.com> <87lk9r8i45.fsf@soliton.cs.tamu.edu>

On Thu, 25 Oct 2007, Gabriel Dos Reis wrote:
> 'deprecated' in the standard does not carry much semantics weight,
> unless the feature is also removed.  But, even then we would have to
> worry about existing codes that were written using the feature.

I have to admit I am also surprised about the use of "deprecated" in
the context of removing these headers.  My previous understanding was
that we'd announce deprecation (and issue warnings) for at least one
major release before actually removing the feature in a following one.

Gerald

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