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From: bright@nazgul.UUCP (Walter Bright)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Behavior of #error preprocessor directive
Keywords: preprocessor directives ANSI standard
Message-ID: <216@nazgul.UUCP>
Date: 13 Jan 91 22:20:12 GMT
References: <1192@van-bc.wimsey.bc.ca>
Reply-To: bright@nazgul.UUCP (Walter Bright)
Organization: Zortech, Seattle
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In article <1192@van-bc.wimsey.bc.ca> jtc@van-bc.wimsey.bc.ca (J.T. Conklin) writes:
/Has anyone experimented with user-introduced warning messages in C? In
/any other language?  Do they work, or do programmers neglect to use
/them?  Is there a real need for such a feature?

Zortech C used to have #message and #exit pragmas, which would cause a
message to be printed during compilation and the compiler to terminate
compilation, respectively. I suggested them to the ANSI C committee, who
rejected the idea. The features were eventually removed due to complaints
about them not being ANSI C. No one complained about them being removed,
which I took to mean no one used them ...