Deprecate some C++ extensions

Gerald Pfeifer gerald@pfeifer.com
Sun Apr 1 17:32:00 GMT 2018


On Tue, 20 Mar 2018, Sandra Loosemore wrote:
> In general, I don't think the current GCC manual should document 
> features that are no longer present in current GCC.  I've previously 
> done a bunch of cleanups to other parts of the manual removing such bits 
> for features that were documented as having gone away 10-20 years ago. 
> :-P 
> So I think it is better to remove the documentation at the same time 
> you remove the features, and mention the removal of the obsolete feature 
> in the release notes instead of in the manual proper.

I was going to suggest that for things we believe may be in more
widely spread active use, keeping a brief note in the docs, but
looking at things from a decade ago, those surely do not qualify
for that. :-)

Gerald



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