On Sun, 2012-10-07 at 18:01 +0000, Weddington, Eric wrote: > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Georg-Johann Lay [] > > Sent: Friday, October 05, 2012 9:55 AM > > To: gcc-patches@gcc.gnu.org > > Cc: Denis Chertykov; Weddington, Eric; Joerg Wunsch > > Subject: [Patch,avr]: Remove -mshort-calls option > > > > As already discussed, this patch removes the -mshort-calls command option > > from > > avr-gcc. > > > > Ok to apply? > > Ok to apply, but... > > > > > If the change is on order, changes to wwwdocs will follow, i.e. deprecate > > the > > option in 4.7 and tell it is removed in the 4.8 caveats. > > > > ... but where do we notify the user that the switch is deprecated? >
Maybe would be better to first make the option a no-op that prints a warning in GCC, remove it from all documentations and mention the deprecation in the wwwdocs changes. Then, in the next GCC release, remove it completely. Cheers, Oleg
