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By a #pragma registry, I just meant that the token immediately following the word "pragma" would be registered and guaranteed unique among all vendors. I.E. if you want to use a SAS/C pragma, you do #pragma sasc …. if you want to do a Borland C++ pragma, you do #pragma borlandc … or whatever. Sure, what the #pragma DOES is implementation-specific. The current definition allows two different vendors to define pragmas with identical syntax but different semantics. If there was a registered name there, at least the compiler would know which ones to ignore. –Doug