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Using deprecated functions attributes [FEATURE REQUEST] [message #13055]

Fri, 07 December 2007 11:24

waxblood
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Registered: January 2007

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I've took the message from

Novo wrote on Thu, 06 December 2007 20:29

luzr wrote on Tue, 27 November 2007 16:55

First of all, SetCtrl(..., Ctrl *ctrl);

is deprecated and should not be used in any new code, in fact, it will likely be removed.

// Linux/xcode
#define DEPRECATED_FUNC __attribute__((__deprecated__))
// MSVC
#define DEPRECATED_FUNC __declspec(deprecated)

You might consider using of DEPRECATED_FUNC macro above to inform users about deprecated methods/functions.

It is more informative than just comments in the source code.

I favour this approach. My problem so far is I've tried it under Linux, and I discovered the option -Wall must be enabled in order for this to work : this cause the display of a lot of undesired warning messages. I've searched the GCC documentation, but I couldn't find a way to specifically enable only deprecated function attribs warnings, apart from issuing a -Wall followed by a long list of -Wnothis -Wnothat -Wnoetc . Does anybody knows it it's there a more elegant way to treat the problem?

David

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