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Re: RFA: Deprecate C++ options
- To: jsm28 at cam dot ac dot uk (Joseph S. Myers)
- Subject: Re: RFA: Deprecate C++ options
- From: Joe Buck <jbuck at synopsys dot COM>
- Date: Thu, 6 Sep 2001 18:33:33 -0700 (PDT)
- Cc: tim at hollebeek dot com (Tim Hollebeek), gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org (gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org)
> ... and it's over a decade since C89 was released, somewhat longer than
> that since ANSI C drafts were being widely distributed and used, so what
> do people think of deprecating -traditional now and removing it in 3.2?
-traditional is still needed in the C preprocessor and will be essentially
forever, to process non-C code. But other uses could be deprecated, or
there could even be a separate executable that would do traditional C
preprocessing for use in applications that need it.
Those who want to say "the C preprocessor should not be used to process
text that is not C", save your typing: such use is pretty pervasive.