How can I get rid of deprecated warnings in deprecated functions in GCC?

Question

One way to implement deprecation warnings is to produce warnings on calls to deprecated functions, unless you are calling from a deprecated context. This way legacy code can call legacy code without producing warnings that only amount to noise.

This is a reasonable line of thinking, and it is reflected in the implementations I see in GCC 4.2 (1) and Clang 4.0 (2) on OS X as well as Clang 3.0 (3) on Ubuntu.

• (1): i686-apple-darwin11-llvm-g++-4.2 (GCC) 4.2.1 (Based on Apple Inc. build 5658) (LLVM build 2336.11.00)
• (2): Apple clang version 4.0 (tags/Apple/clang-421.0.57) (based on LLVM 3.1svn)
• (3): Ubuntu clang version 3.0-6ubuntu3 (tags/RELEASE_30/final) (based on LLVM 3.0)

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However, when I compile with GCC 4.6 (4) on Ubuntu, I get deprecated warnings for all invocations of deprecated functions, independently of context. Is this a regression in functionality? Are there compiler options I can use to get the other behavior?

• (4): g++ (Ubuntu/Linaro 4.6.3-1ubuntu5) 4.6.3

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Example program:

int __attribute__((deprecated)) a() {
    return 10;
}

int __attribute__((deprecated)) b() {
    return a() * 2; //< I want to get rid of warnings from this line
}

int main() {
    return b(); //< I expect a warning on this line only
}

Output from GCC 4.2 (Yes, I do get the same warning twice. I don't care about that, though):

main.cpp: In function ‘int main()’:
main.cpp:10: warning: ‘b’ is deprecated (declared at main.cpp:5)
main.cpp:10: warning: ‘b’ is deprecated (declared at main.cpp:5)

Output from GCC 4.6:

main.cpp: In function 'int b()':
main.cpp:6:9: warning: 'int a()' is deprecated (declared at main.cpp:1) [-Wdeprecated-declarations]
main.cpp:6:11: warning: 'int a()' is deprecated (declared at main.cpp:1) [-Wdeprecated-declarations]
main.cpp: In function 'int main()':
main.cpp:10:9: warning: 'int b()' is deprecated (declared at main.cpp:5) [-Wdeprecated-declarations]
main.cpp:10:11: warning: 'int b()' is deprecated (declared at main.cpp:5) [-Wdeprecated-declarations]

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How can I convince GCC 4.6 that it should give me the same output as GCC 4.2?

Answer 1

-Wno-deprecated will remove all deprecated warnings