[RFC] Removing -fpack-struct in C++ for 4.0

[Joseph S. Myers]

On Thu, 7 Oct 2004, Aaron W. LaFramboise wrote:

> I can't find any information on an official deprecation policy.  Perhaps
> there should be one, maybe as part of the release procedure or release
> criteria.  If a benign feature is to be removed without a deprecation
> period on the grounds that it appears to be unused, it seems like this
> should be in accord with some agreed on policy.

Removal without deprecation period is generally because a feature turns 
out to have been broken for a long time so there can't be users of it 
because it doesn't work (or the users are going to stick to their very old 
stable compiler version anyway).  Past examples include typedef foo = bar 
and -fvolatile.

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