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parma@picker.com (Mike Parma) writes:

>In article <bkFYsLbr@twinsun.com> eggert@twinsun.com (Paul Eggert) writes:
>>	static char rcsid[] = "$Id: ... $";
>>	print_version() { printf("version: %s\n", rcsid); }

>The problem with the above solution is that now 'print_version' is
>a global function that might conflict with another '.c' file

That argument misses the main point, which is that the program must _use_
the version character string -- e.g. to print out the version number.
If the program doesn't use the string, then there's no way for it to
ensure that the compiler won't optimize the string away.
The print_version example is meant to be a function that is actually invoked,
not a function that exists solely to fool the compiler.

>I realize that 'pragma' means non-standard, but :) is there a 'common'
>one used for the above.

There are some pragmas floating around, but none of them are portable
to all (or even most) C implementations.