[cfe-dev] False positive warning: "warning: 'terminate:' is deprecated"?

[jahanian]

On Dec 12, 2011, at 10:34 AM, Eli Friedman wrote:

> On Mon, Dec 12, 2011 at 10:17 AM, Sean McBride <sean at rogue-research.com> wrote:
>> Hi all,
>> 
>> With clang version 3.1 (trunk 146375) the code below generates a false positive warning:
>> 
>> test.m:7:6: warning: 'terminate:' is deprecated [-Wdeprecated-declarations]
>>    [NSApp terminate:nil];
>>     ^
>> 
>> As best as I can tell, that method is not deprecated.  The global variable NSApp is declared as 'id'.  If I cast it to NSApplication* the warning goes away.  This warning did not occur a few weeks ago, nor does it with gcc.
>> 
>> Is it a bug or am I missing something?
> 
> This change was made intentionally in r145999.  There are multiple
> methods called terminate in Cocoa.h, and one of them (specifically,
> the one on NSInputServiceProvider) is deprecated.  It's possible the
> heuristic and/or the headers need tweaks.

That is correct. This was intentionally done on user request when receiver type is 'id' and there is at least one deprecated method
of the given name. Type-cast always removes the warning.

- Fariborz

> 
> -Eli