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+From: David Bremner <david@tethera.net>\r
+To: Tomi Ollila <tomi.ollila@iki.fi>, notmuch@notmuchmail.org\r
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+Subject: Re: [PATCH] lib: have two definitions of NOTMUCH_DEPRECATED macro\r
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+Tomi Ollila <tomi.ollila@iki.fi> writes:\r
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+> Some compilers (older than gcc 4.5 and clang 2.9) do support\r
+> __attribute__ ((deprecated)) but not\r
+> __attribute__ ((deprecated("message"))).\r
+>\r
+> Check (clang) and know (gcc) which versions support which variants\r
+> and make two definitions of define NOTMUCH_DEPRECATED macro;\r
+> one with and and one without the ("message") part.\r
+>\r
+> __has_extension() replacement was modeled after __has_attribute()\r
+> definition in compat/function-attributes.h. Thanks Justus.\r
+\r
+Hi Tomi;\r
+\r
+I keep coming back to review this patch, but I'm blocked by the fact\r
+that clang++ is broken on Debian (and lots of other places, I guess) for\r
+months.\r
+\r
+ https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=797038\r
+\r
+d\r