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

[Dave Korn]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: gcc-owner On Behalf Of Joseph S. Myers
> Sent: 08 October 2004 01:06

> > 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.

  Interestingly enough, -fvolatile did in fact have thousands of users,
although I guess nobody was really looking closely at what it actually did
to the code...!

    cheers, 
      DaveK
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