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Re: Removal of pre-ISO C++ items from include/backwards
Gerald Pfeifer wrote:
> On Thu, 25 Oct 2007, Andrew Pinski wrote:
>> Well technically these headers have been deprecated since at least 3.2
>> (maybe even back in 3.0) with them producing a warning. So I don't
>> know if we should move them or not but we have followed our own rules
>> here.
>
> Sorry, I misread the Subject: what disappeared under my back, without any
> warning nor deprecation period, actually was ext/hash_map and friends.
Whether or not we've been through a deprecation cycle, I still think
there should be a very high bar for removing APIs from the library.
My two cents,
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