Generating custom warning messages.

[Andreas Schwab]

Alexandre Oliva <oliva@dcc.unicamp.br> writes:

|> Ben Scherrey <scherrey@gte.net> writes:
|> 
|> > 	What I would like to be able to do is generate a warning message during
|> > compile/link time whenever a deprecated method is called and have it
|> > suggest use of the new one.
|> 
|> The easiest way to accomplish that would be to define a new
|> __attribute__ to g++, such as __attribute__((deprecated)), and arrange 
|> that it prints a warning message when the method is called.  I don't
|> know how easy it would be to implement it, though.

That is already implemented in GNU ld, using the so called "warning
symbols".  See the GNU libc for an application.

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