https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=58407
--- Comment #20 from Jonathan Wakely <redi at gcc dot gnu.org> --- (In reply to Steinar H. Gunderson from comment #19) > Thanks for confirming; so GCC is absolutely right here, it's the standard > that makes a choice with surprising ramifications (to me, at least). I Yes. GCC could choose not to warn about that deprecation, but the whole point of this bug report is that somebody was asking for GCC to do exactly that. > wonder if I should try to ask someone in the standards committee to make an > exception for pure virtual destructors... I've heard worse ideas. The whole topic of deprecating those members is already a bit contentious.