From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Paul Eggert Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: obsolete functions found during the build process Date: Sat, 12 Aug 2017 10:40:37 -0700 Organization: UCLA Computer Science Department Message-ID: <515a773e-e961-a09a-67d8-79b5acc674ad@cs.ucla.edu> References: <1E2AEF85-800D-4F85-BF29-F08720F8226F@gmail.com> <837ey9jhs7.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1502559687 822 195.159.176.226 (12 Aug 2017 17:41:27 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 12 Aug 2017 17:41:27 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.2.1 Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii , Jean-Christophe Helary Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Aug 12 19:41:23 2017 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1dgaPb-0008Gs-IM for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 12 Aug 2017 19:41:23 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:43637 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dgaPe-0001JE-M0 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 12 Aug 2017 13:41:26 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:53536) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dgaP0-0001Iv-Vv for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 12 Aug 2017 13:40:48 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dgaP0-0002J6-0Z for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 12 Aug 2017 13:40:47 -0400 Original-Received: from zimbra.cs.ucla.edu ([131.179.128.68]:57580) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dgaOu-00027C-EF; Sat, 12 Aug 2017 13:40:40 -0400 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by zimbra.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id CA018160849; Sat, 12 Aug 2017 10:40:38 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from zimbra.cs.ucla.edu ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (zimbra.cs.ucla.edu [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10032) with ESMTP id hOii8aZQatvV; Sat, 12 Aug 2017 10:40:38 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by zimbra.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id E920616084A; Sat, 12 Aug 2017 10:40:37 -0700 (PDT) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at zimbra.cs.ucla.edu Original-Received: from zimbra.cs.ucla.edu ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (zimbra.cs.ucla.edu [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10026) with ESMTP id rCzBiiQYJtRU; Sat, 12 Aug 2017 10:40:37 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from [192.168.1.9] (unknown [47.153.184.153]) by zimbra.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id AAC3A16080D; Sat, 12 Aug 2017 10:40:37 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <837ey9jhs7.fsf@gnu.org> Content-Language: en-US X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 3.x [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 131.179.128.68 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:217488 Archived-At: Eli Zaretskii wrote: > In some cases, the use of the obsolete function is justified, though. Is there some way for code to say "I know this function is obsolete, but the call is justified so don't warn about it"? That would be helpful, so that compiles could be clean and so that people would be more likely to pay attention to any stray warnings that do crop up.