NetNews Usenet Archive 1992 #31/NN_1992_31.iso/spool/comp/lang/c/18963

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From: [e-mail] (E. Tye McQueen)
Subject: Re: Another C palindrome puzzle
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Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 09:26:27 GMT
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[e-mail] (Fergus James HENDERSON) writes:
)[e-mail] (der Mouse) writes:
)>Or older versions of gcc, which would give up on compiling and
)>run rogue when they happened across a #pragma of any sort?
)
)I think that these versions of gcc are not standard-conforming.
)I don't have the ANSI C standard, but the C++ ARM says that
)"an unrecognized pragma will be ignored", and I think that the
)C standard says something similar.

But, of course, that gcc compiler recognized all pragmas.

)But you're right of course, it's not strictly ANSI conforming.

You seem to be saying that any use of "#pragma" results in a
not-strictly-ANSI-conforming program, which makes it seem silly
to include it as part of the standard.  And illustrating that
point was, as I recall, the main reason that gcc chose to run
rogue.  Though I at least partially agree, I doubt that is, in
fact, what you are were saying; so I apologize for misunder-
standing you.

 [e-mail]                         Tye McQueen, E.
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