On Sun, 27 Feb 2005, Robert Dewar wrote: > Joseph S. Myers wrote: > > > In the case mentioned of __FUNCTION__ concatenation, (a) __FUNCTION__ was > > always documented as a variable, so concatentation of it was always > > undocumented and so liable to removal at any time > > Yes, that's a legally sustainable position, just as it would be sustainable > to make an illegal program immediately illegal in the Ada case, but as I > said, we have to consider users as well, and telling a user that he cannot > sue you for misprepresentation or doing something wrong is not actually > helpful to the user trying to get a program running.
And in that case we did consider users: although the concatenation of __FUNCTION__ wasn't documented, it emitted a deprecation warning in the 3.0, 3.1/3.2 and 3.3 release series before being removed in 3.4. -- Joseph S. Myers http://www.srcf.ucam.org/~jsm28/gcc/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] (personal mail) [EMAIL PROTECTED] (CodeSourcery mail) [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bugzilla assignments and CCs)
