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clamage@Eng.Sun.COM (Steve Clamage) wrote:

[ mention of requiring unrecognized #pragmas to be errors elided... ] 

>IMHO, pragmas should be reserved for things like turning error reporting
>or optimizations on and off. That is, things that don't (necessarily)
>affect program correctness, but convenience, efficiency, and the like.
>More significant pragmas might have a place in special-purpose compilers,
>such as for embedded systems, where programs are inherently unportable.

IMO, the real problem is that pragmas are allowed to do almost anything
- I haven't checked the DWP on it, but the C standard simply specifies
that they cause the program to act in an implementation defined manner,
with no limitations.

IMO, a pragma should be required to have no effect detectable by a
strictly conforming program.
    Later,
    Jerry.

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