[commit] Deprecate remaining STREQ uses

Eli Zaretskii eliz@elta.co.il
Mon Dec 1 19:08:00 GMT 2003


> Date: Mon, 01 Dec 2003 10:47:01 -0500
> From: Andrew Cagney <cagney@gnu.org>
> > 
> > But that's precisely why we have the patch review and approval
> > procedure, right?  Maintainers who approve patches are supposed to
> > prevent code that uses deprecated machinery from being added.
> 
> Very true.  Explicit deprecation is a tool for making that part of the 
> maintainer and contributor task far easier.  Instead of wasting time 
> trying to track and find all the things being eliminated, the 
> contributor and reviewer can simply keep an eye out for deprecated in 
> their patches

I'm not convinced that detecting STREQ is harder than detecting
DEPRECATED_STREQ.



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