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From: gwyn@smoke.brl.mil (Doug Gwyn)
Newsgroups: comp.std.c
Subject: Re: #pragma
Message-ID: <14641@smoke.brl.mil>
Date: 3 Dec 90 14:26:17 GMT
References: <9012030445.AA04437@decpa.pa.dec.com>
Organization: U.S. Army Ballistic Research Laboratory, APG, MD.
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In article <9012030445.AA04437@decpa.pa.dec.com> diamond@tkou02.enet.dec.com ("diamond@tkovoa") writes:
>... if ANSI had stuck to its original intention, ...
>ANSI's change-of-mind now denies this portability.
>In ANSI's original intent, ...
>However, in ANSI's new intent, ...

I think a large fraction of X3J11 would deny that their original intention
was that #pragma could not affect semantics.  Certainly the final standard
allows it to.