>>>>> "Ian" == Ian Lance Taylor <i...@google.com> writes:

Ian> Hi Tom, in the fix for PR 22168 you deprecated #ident, in the sense
Ian> that gcc now warns about it.  Is that really a good idea?

No.

I don't remember why I did this, but I assume it was due to the
pre-existing comment above the directive table saying that #ident was
deprecated.

Ian> I don't think there is any reason for us to actually remove #ident, so
Ian> I don't see any reason for us to warn that it is deprecated.  We
Ian> should certainly warn about it when using -pedantic, but I don't see
Ian> any reason to warn about it at any other time.

Yes, I agree.

Ian> I'm on the fence about #sccs but I tend to think that we should not
Ian> warn about it except with -pedantic.

I tend to agree, because my understanding is that #sccs has a long
non-gcc history.

Tom

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