c++/7755: Please make -Wno-deprecated do just that

[H. Peter Anvin]

The following reply was made to PR c++/7755; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Wolfgang Bangerth <bangerth@ticam.utexas.edu>
Cc: gcc-bugs@gcc.gnu.org, gcc-gnats@gcc.gnu.org
Subject: Re: c++/7755: Please make -Wno-deprecated do just that
Date: Wed, 08 Jan 2003 13:10:21 -0800

 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