[llvm-dev] Is it a good idea to mark class as deprecated?

[Michael Spencer via llvm-dev]

On Thu, Apr 27, 2017 at 7:13 AM, 陳韋任 via llvm-dev <llvm-dev at lists.llvm.org>
wrote:

> Hi All,
>
>   During a discussion about instruction scheduling in LLVM [1], I
> realize that class PostRASchedulerList
> actually is deprecated. The documentation of instruction scheduling is
> pretty poor, so I cannot find such
> information. Removing the obsoleted class might be too aggressive. I
> am wondering if we can mark
> the class as deprecated [2] (seems C++14 feature required), or at
> least making a note on [3].
>
>   Thoughts? :-)
>
> [1] http://lists.llvm.org/pipermail/llvm-dev/2017-April/112358.html
> [2]  http://josephmansfield.uk/articles/marking-deprecated-c++14.html
> [3] http://llvm.org/docs/CodeGenerator.html#selectiondag-scheduling-and-
> formation-phase
>
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> Wei-Ren Chen (陳韋任)
> Homepage: https://people.cs.nctu.edu.tw/~chenwj
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Not sure about that class specifically, but we have
LLVM_ATTRIBUTE_DEPRECATED in Support/Compiler.h. However I'm not sure it
will work for class types.

- Michael Spencer
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