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Re: Do not use __ptr_t
On Tue, Aug 8, 2017 at 10:58 AM, Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> wrote:
> Thanks, that patch looks good as far as it goes. How about deprecating
> __ptr_t while we're at it? Although we can't deprecate a macro directly, we
> can do this:
>
> typedef void __ptr_t_void __attribute_deprecated__;
> /* This is not a typedef so 'const __ptr_t' does the right thing. */
> #define __ptr_t __ptr_t_void *
Macros can be deprecated using _Pragma("GCC message \"...\""). Have a
look at what I did in sysmacros.h.
zw