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From: dhesi@bsu-cs.UUCP (Rahul Dhesi)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Pragmas
Message-ID: <1766@bsu-cs.UUCP>
Date: 2 Jan 88 19:26:29 GMT
References: <8801021358.AA15890@decwrl.dec.com>
Reply-To: dhesi@bsu-cs.UUCP (Rahul Dhesi)
Organization: CS Dept, Ball St U, Muncie, Indiana
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In article <8801021358.AA15890@decwrl.dec.com> minow@thundr.dec.com (Martin 
Minow THUNDR::MINOW ML3-5/U26 223-9922) writes:
>According to the Draft Standard, unknown pragmas are to be ignored
>(section 3.8.6 of the Aug. '87 draft).  Because it doesn't distinguish
>mistakes from typographical errors, this is a mistake, and one that the
>Committee seems inordinately fond of: they rejected my request to
>flag unknown pragmas as errors.

Agreed.  What we really need is a pragma that tells the compiler to
ignore unrecognizes pragmas, and the default should be to flag
unrecognized pragmas as errors.

Unfortunately, it has been traditional (e.g. Pascal and Ada) for
compilers to ignore unrecognized pragmas so ANSI is simply following
well-trodden footsteps.  This may not get fixed until a missile is
actually lost in space due to a misspelled pragma.
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Rahul Dhesi         UUCP:  <backbones>!{iuvax,pur-ee,uunet}!bsu-cs!dhesi