skaller wrote:
I think this is the wrong idea. Deprecated does carry a lot of weight. It allows a new compiler without a legacy to elide the feature and specify it is ISO compliant 'minus' the deprecated features, which is quite different from 'non-compliant'.
are you sure? I thought conformance required deprecated features to be allowed
In particular, for a product like gcc it means a switch like --no-deprecated-features can be added and then used by a client without risking 'all bets are off since the compiler isn't conforming'.
You can always add any switch to do anything, the standard only requires that there be a mode that is conformant.
