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Re: shadowed rel_ops operators
On Mon, Jan 22, 2001 at 05:08:47PM +1100, Richard Andrews wrote:
>
> > The only people reading comments in the headers are *us*. If we're going to
> > warn about this, we should do so more "proactively." We can't use #warning;
> > stl_relops.h gets included by too many things... hm.
> >
> > *sigh* We need a __builtin_warning that acts like #warning but only takes
> > effect when the user actually uses it. :-)
>
> Actually, the header might be an appropriate location for the warning.
No, I *meant* we could put the hypothetical __builtin_warning somewhere in
the rel_ops code. The header could be freely included, but the #warning-like
text wouldn't occur until the user used it. However...
> When I first encountered this problem, I was taken straight to
> bits/stl_iterator.h by the error message.
Ah, that's cool. So no such #warning would be needed. Our diagnostics
mechanisms have been much improved lately. (Thanks Gaby!)
Phil
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