None of these are strictly needed for correctness.
A large number of them (maybe all of them?) trigger `-Wdeprecated`
warnings on Clang trunk as soon as you try to use the implicitly
defaulted (but deprecated) copy constructor of a class that has
deleted its copy assignment operator.
By declaring a deleted copy assignment operator, the old code
also caused the move constructor and move assignment operator
to be non-declared. This means that the old code never got move
semantics -- "move-construction" would simply call the defaulted
(but deprecated) copy constructor instead. With the new code,
"move-construction" calls the defaulted move constructor, which
I believe is what we want to happen. So this is a runtime
performance optimization.
Unfortunately we can't yet physically remove the definitions
of these macros from gtest-port.h, because they are being used
by other code internally at Google (according to zhangxy988).
But no new uses should be added going forward.
Arthur O'Dwyer
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