[Ns-developers] Deprecated Attribute?

[craigdo@ee.washington.edu]

> > > attribute, we effectively set a requirement for gcc >= 
> 4.2.0 on our
> > builds.
> >
> > We already (thanks gustavo) have logic in place to make the 
> DEPRECATED
> > macro a noop with gcc <= 4.1. See check_compilation_flag in the
> > top-level wscript.
> 
> This is true.  But unless I missed something, the code checks if the
> -Wno-error=... option can be used, but doesn't make 
> DEPRECATED a noop if it
> cannot be used.  If that is the desired behaviour (and I 
> think it is) then
> some more simple work is needed on top of that.  I volunteer 
> to take care of
> it.

Yes, I think this is the desired behavior.  As it stands, if I edit one of
our examples to call SetChannelParameter, the build will fail on
ns-regression:

../examples/udp-echo.cc:91: warning: â?~SetChannelParameterâ?T is deprecated
(de
clared at debug/ns3/csma-helper.h:84)
Build failed
 -> task failed (err #129):
[bld:///home/craigdo/repos/ns-3-dev/examples/udp-ech
o_8.o]

-- Craig