Re: [v3] Close libstdc++/7219

[Phil Edwards <phil at codesourcery dot com>]

On Sat, Aug 21, 2004 at 01:01:44AM +0200, Paolo Carlini wrote:
> Phil Edwards wrote:
> 
> >Are there any other uses of _GLIBCXX_DEPRECATED?
> >
> Actually, there is another one: in basic_streambuf we still have one
> for stossc.

Oh, right, forgot.


> In this case, the standard says "an implementation *may*
> provide the following additional member function" (emphasis mine),
> therefore, it's not exactly the same thing since, in my reading of
> the standard, io_state, open_mode & co (in ios_base) while deprecated
> *must* be provided.
> 
> Shall we just provide unconditionally stossc too?

We could, if we mark it the same way as we do other extensions.  If we
do remove _GLIBCXX_DEPRECATED then, we might also want to test for it
somewhere and print a warning that it no longer does anything, since it
must be the user explicitly defining it in that case.

I've changed the list back to libstdc++ to see what others think.

Phil

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