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From: gwyn@brl-smoke.ARPA (Doug Gwyn )
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Pragmas
Message-ID: <6939@brl-smoke.ARPA>
Date: 6 Jan 88 03:09:08 GMT
References: <8801021358.AA15890@decwrl.dec.com> <1766@bsu-cs.UUCP>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) <gwyn>)
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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In article <1766@bsu-cs.UUCP> dhesi@bsu-cs.UUCP (Rahul Dhesi) writes:
>This may not get fixed until a missile is
>actually lost in space due to a misspelled pragma.

Since a #pragma is not supposed to change the abstract "virtual
machine" operation, it's hard to see how this could happen.

At the rate the USA is going, it's going to be a long time before
a missile is actually fired into space!