backward -> deprecated

[Neil Booth]

Gabriel Dos Reis wrote:-

> | Phil, Alexandre, and Jason have all indicated some kind of warning for
> | using the backward headers, unless a specific (already existing)
> | warning flag is used. To me, this means some kind of macro definition
> | triggered via this flag (done in cpp a la _EXCEPTIONS)
> | 
> | Then, we could add a third directory to the g++ include search patch
> | (a la the target include work) for backward headers, search it, and
> | install the contents of the backward directory into it.
> | 
> | Sound reasonable? Other approaches that I've missed that would be easier?
> 
> Your proposal sounds reasonable to me.  I'm not a cpplib guru so I
> guess we'll need Neil's input as to how to proceed.

Sorry, I've missed this thread apart from what's quoted here.  What
advice exactly are you looking for?  I don't quite understand all this
about a warning flag and a macro definition.  Could you give a trivial
example?

Neil.