/Zc:__cplusplus leads to C2416

[crusader-mike]

OS: Windows 7
Compiler: MSVC 2017 (15.9.11)

If project uses /Zc:__cplusplus json lib v3.7.0 fails to compile with this:

C2416: attribute 'deprecated' cannot be applied in this context

Looks like MSVC doesn't like this attribute applied to operator>> definition.

[jaredgrubb]

I don't see why there is any bug here. Can you explain why the deprecated attribute is not legal in that context?

[crusader-mike]

I assume it complains because [[deprecated]] attribute was applied to definition. According to C++17 draft I have (10.6.4.p2):

The attribute may be applied to the declaration of a class, a typedef-name, a variable, a non-static data member, a function, a namespace, an enumeration, an enumerator, or a template specialization.

Looks like MS read it as "can't happen on a definition". I have no opinion about correctness of this position.

[jaredgrubb]

Yeh, that's a nuance that I can't make a call on myself. Dumb fix would be just to disable C2416 for this file :)

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[crusader-mike]

Bad bot!

[t-b]

Not sure how the project rules here are with respect to selectively disabling warnings but why not propose a PR which uses pragma push/pop logic for MSVC to disable that warning for this piece of code? See https://stackoverflow.com/a/18463996 as a starting point.

[crusader-mike]

or I could simply patch this lib in my vcpkg instance and avoid dealing with PR/etc ;)

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[mrstux]

I'm seeing this too.

I tried disabling the warning via the push/pop mechanism, but it seems the compiler front-end doesn't understand that its a compiler warning, and the website doesn't document it either.

In the end I added a check for MSVC to the deprecated language checks. Oh well.

A bit hacky, but unblocking.

/*
TODO: remove _MSC_VER when this is fixed.
https://github.com/nlohmann/json/issues/1695
*/
#if defined(__cplusplus) && (__cplusplus >= 201402L) && !defined(_MSC_VER)
    #define JSON_HEDLEY_DEPRECATED(since) JSON_HEDLEY_DIAGNOSTIC_DISABLE_CPP98_COMPAT_WRAP_([[deprecated("Since " #since)]])
    #define JSON_HEDLEY_DEPRECATED_FOR(since, replacement) JSON_HEDLEY_DIAGNOSTIC_DISABLE_CPP98_COMPAT_WRAP_([[deprecated("Since " #since "; use " #replacement)]])
#elif \

And regarding closing this issue because its "stale", I guess its a novel approach to solving issues, just close them after 31 days.