c++/7755: Please make -Wno-deprecated do just that
H. Peter Anvin
hpa@zytor.com
Mon Jan 13 05:17:00 GMT 2003
Wolfgang Bangerth wrote:
>>If -Wno-deprecated is not the right way to disable this warning, then
>>please do provide another flag to do so. Not being able to selectively
>>squelsh this warning is a total showstopper for being able to use newer
>>gcc's for several projects.
>
>
> But if the deprecated feature is removed in the next version of gcc,
> you're not much better off, either: your code simply needs to be fixed,
> and given the example you showed this is actually not so difficult.
>
> That does not mean that I'm not in favor of implementing such a warning,
> but I guess few people feel incited to invent a switch for old branches
> where newer versions will not allow the feature warned for anyway.
>
Well, given that gcc still supports -traditional, some amount of
backwards compatibility probably needs to be accounted for...
-hpa
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