------- Comment #9 from hjl dot tools at gmail dot com 2009-02-20 14:47 -------
(In reply to comment #6)
> (In reply to comment #5)
> > Should attribute work on enum constants?
>
> Not sure if this is a question for me but IMO, it should. I would expect
> individual enumerators to be more heavily referenced than their types
> (sometimes even exclusively) and the warning to be of equal importance
> for both. In addition, just like declaring a class deprecated implies
> that all members of the class are deprecated, so should declaring
> an enumeration deprecated imply that all its enumerators are.
__attribute__((deprecated)) can be used on class members.
> Finally, since enumerators of unnamed types can be declared deprecated
> not issuing the warning would make such declarations pointless:
>
> $ cat u.cpp && g++ -W -Wall -Werror -c u.cpp
> enum __attribute__((deprecated)) { e };
> int i = e; // warning missing
> $
I don't believe gcc supports
enum { e __attribute__((deprecated)) };
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http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=39219
