[llvm-dev] [llvm-c] Deprecated functions

[Mehdi Amini via llvm-dev]

> On Apr 5, 2016, at 2:09 PM, James Y Knight via llvm-dev <llvm-dev at lists.llvm.org> wrote:
> 
> I think there's a two different "levels" of deprecated:
> a) There's a better function you should know about and prefer in new code, but the old one will (probably) not be removed.

Well, I’m not sure: if I’m doing some cleanup, and I reach the C API, I’ll look when the function was deprecated and may decide to remove it if it was not in the last release.

— 
Mehdi



> This sort of deprecation should only be mentioned in comments, since there's no real reason to have people's builds start spewing warning messages if they used the old function.
> b) There's a better function, and the old one will be removed soon. These ought to use a deprecated attribute, in order to entice people to switch over before it turns into a "no such function" error.
> 
> I'd expect most of the deprecations in the C API to be of the former kind.
> 
> On Tue, Apr 5, 2016 at 4:07 PM, Alex Denisov via llvm-dev <llvm-dev at lists.llvm.org <mailto:llvm-dev at lists.llvm.org>> wrote:
> Hi everyone,
> 
> I’m working with the LLVM C API now.
> I see that several functions are deprecated, however the only notion is in comments around the function.
> 
> Is there any specific reason why __attribute__((deprecated)) is omitted?
> Will it make sense to send a patch with such additions?
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> AlexDenisov
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