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From: karl@haddock.ima.isc.com (Karl Heuer)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions,comp.std.c
Subject: Re: I can't find a good definition anywhere...
Message-ID: <13022@haddock.ima.isc.com>
Date: 10 May 89 15:42:53 GMT
References: <1954@trantor.harris-atd.com> <10084@smoke.BRL.MIL> <1339@ncr-sd.SanDiego.NCR.COM> <10214@smoke.BRL.MIL> <849@mtxinu.UUCP> <FLEE.89May8171524@shire.cs.psu.edu> <2810@buengc.BU.EDU>
Reply-To: karl@haddock.ima.isc.com (Karl Heuer)
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(Followups to comp.std.c; this is not a unix question.)

This guy walks into a bar with 500 #pragma's.  In article <2810@buengc.BU.EDU>
the bartender says,
>What does a #pragma _do_, anyway?

So the guy says, "Anything it wants!"
(With apologies to any 500# gorillas in the audience.)

Seriously, though, #pragma is the universal escape to allow implementors to
do the sorts of things that they just *have* to add to the language (e.g.
`#module' or `#ident'), in such a way that it won't interfere with other ANSI-
conforming implementations.

Karl W. Z. Heuer (ima!haddock!karl or karl@haddock.isc.com), The Walking Lint
(Oh, wow!  I actually used `#' as a pound sign!)