FOSS and Interface Taxonomy levels

Alan Coopersmith Alan.Coopersmith at sun.com
Wed Mar 5 16:41:16 PST 2008


Garrett D'Amore wrote:
> This could of course lead to other similar pragmas,
> 
>    #pragma obsolete-api

gcc's been there and done that - we're just waiting for the Sun compiler
to decide that interface stability is something important to us.

(gcc uses its attribute syntax, not pragmas, but since it's out there and
 in use, we have to follow suit or lose all the data in the existing open
 source projects using gcc's attributes.)

5086592 Implementing __attribute__ and deprecated GNUCC extensions in Sun Studio C++

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