On Sunday 16 December 2007, Nicholas Nethercote wrote:

> I didn't know about the 'deprecated' attribute, thanks for the tip.  In
> this case, I don't think we could have used it because they were macros. 

I think it would be possible to convert them into static inlines though. 

> These macros were marked as deprecated in the 3.2.0 release notes, so there
> was considerable warning.

there is not an easy way for projects to reestablish backward compatibility, 
other than adding a #ifndef old_macro.. 

hmm, which would break again for the static inlines idea. *sigh*

Anyway, we should not do such changes anymore after RC1, which people use for 
testing. 


Greetings,
Dirk

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