Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!vsi!friedl
From: friedl@vsi.UUCP (Stephen J. Friedl)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Optimization (was Re: volatile)
Message-ID: <638@vsi.UUCP>
Date: 5 May 88 06:09:19 GMT
References: <13074@brl-adm.ARPA> <3938@killer.UUCP> <2758@bsu-cs.UUCP> <1025@micomvax.UUCP>
Organization: V-Systems, Inc. -- Santa Ana, CA
Lines: 21
Summary: Too late

In article <1025@micomvax.UUCP>, ray@micomvax.UUCP (Ray Dunn) writes:
< In article <2758@bsu-cs.UUCP> dhesi@bsu-cs.UUCP (Rahul Dhesi) writes:
< >The sentiment behind this [deleted] rhetorical question is precisely
< >why it is dangerous that ANSI-conformant compilers will silently ignore
< >unrecognized #pragmas.
< 
< What?  Huh?  I had almost fallen asleep hitting ^N, then this appeared!
< 
< Dangerous indeed.  Could this in fact not become the portability nightmare
< of the future, and is this perhaps something that we should try to nip in
< the bud as quickly as possible?

Sorry, no more buds will be nipped unless X3J11 decides to go
one more round with us ha ha ha ha :-).

Actually, I would imagine that most compilers would give some kind
of switch that turns on or turns off unreported #pragma warnings.

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