Issue an internal warning on first deprecated function call

[Andrew Cagney]

>>>>>> "Andrew" == Andrew Cagney <ac131313@ges.redhat.com> writes:
> 
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> Andrew> The idea is to issue an internal-warning on the first call to a
> Andrew> deprecated [multi-arch] function.
> 
> Andrew> Thoughts?  Variations on the idea?
> 
> What about marking functions as deprecated at compile time using
> __attribute__?  Then the burden falls on the maintainers not to call
> deprecated functions.  (I'm not certain that
> __attribute__((deprecated)) works if you are calling through a
> function pointer.)

Hmm, thanks.  I thought there was such an attribute but couldn't find it 
in the version of the doco I was looking at.  I'll try to check it out.

thanks,
Andrew