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

["H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>]

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

From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28@cam.ac.uk>
Cc: Wolfgang Bangerth <bangerth@ticam.utexas.edu>, gcc-gnats@gcc.gnu.org
Subject: Re: c++/7755: Please make -Wno-deprecated do just that
Date: Wed, 08 Jan 2003 15:42:57 -0800

 Joseph S. Myers wrote:
 > On Wed, 8 Jan 2003, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
 > 
 > 
 >>Well, given that gcc still supports -traditional, some amount of
 >>backwards compatibility probably needs to be accounted for...
 > 
 > 
 > GCC (mainline and 3.3 branch) does not still support -traditional.  
 > Support was deprecated in 3.1 and removed for 3.3 (though the draft
 > release notes for 3.3 fail to mention this).
 > 
 > But -Wno-deprecated makes sense as a C option, not just a C++ one, and
 > should be implemented as such - if people use the blunt instrument of
 > disabling all deprecation warnings, it's their problem when the features
 > are removed, just as if they use -w to disable all warnings, or fail to
 > use -Wall.  This bug report should stay open as a feature request for a
 > manifestly desirable feature (and straightforward to implement - any
 > beginners looking for PRs to work on could reasonably do this one).
 > 
 
 Well put.
 
 	-hpa