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From: gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn )
Newsgroups: comp.std.c
Subject: Re: #pragma
Message-ID: <9386@smoke.BRL.MIL>
Date: 15 Jan 89 16:44:20 GMT
References: <8770@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) <gwyn>)
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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In article <8770@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU> scs@adam.pika.mit.edu (Steve Summit) writes:
>It has been stated that X3J11 has not specified anything (other
>than trigraphs) which had not already been implemented in
>production compilers.  What was the "prior art" for #pragmas?

I don't know who stated that, but it isn't phrased quite right.
However, it does happen that #pragma has been implemented in C
translators.  Some of us just ignore lines "#pragma ..."!  That
is a valid implementation, and one I heartily recommend.

The main source for the notion of pragmas is of course Ada.