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From: mccarrol@topaz.rutgers.edu (<MC>)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Pragmas
Message-ID: <17196@topaz.rutgers.edu>
Date: 23 Dec 87 17:50:33 GMT
Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J.
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Keywords: What is it


With all of the discussion lately about #pragmas vs noalias, I
thought I'd ask a simple ( and probably stupid) question:

	What is a pragma, and what is the function of #pragma in C?

		<MC>
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Mark C. Carroll                   | a man in black on a snow white horse.
Rutgers University CS Student     | a pointless life has run its course.
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