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From: andreess@mrlaxs.mrl.uiuc.edu (Marc Andreessen)
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Subject: Re: getting cc to recognize alloca
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Date: 10 Mar 91 00:07:14 GMT
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In article <1192@gagme.chi.il.us> grahj@gagme.chi.il.us (jim graham) writes:
>ok, now I have a question --- of the 2 C bo{oks I have{, I can find no
>explanation {of the #pragma preprocessor directive.....so, what is it?

It's an implementation-defined preprocessor directive; what it's used
for will vary from compiler to compiler.

Marc

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