RE: [avr-libc-dev] [RFC] Conditional poisoning of deprecated items

[Weddington, Eric]

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> Behalf Of David A. Mellis
> Sent: Monday, February 28, 2011 6:14 AM
> To: John Myers
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> Subject: Re: [avr-libc-dev] [RFC] Conditional poisoning of deprecated
> items
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> Alternatively, is there a way to make this the default, but generate
> warnings, not errors, for the use of deprecated items?  That would
> make it clear that people are using something that's been deprecated,
> but allow them to ignore the warning and proceed if they wish.  Then
> there could be an option to disable the warnings, or to turn the
> warnings into errors.
> 
> (Or are warnings already generated for deprecated items?)
> 

That would be good too. 

Unfortunately, this method is all I've been able to find so far. If someone 
discovers a different method that would allow these other capabilities, then I 
think we could easily change the intent. Whatever method is discovered and 
used, it has to work on C preprocessor macros too.

Eric