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Simple C question

    25-Feb-93 17:15:07
Fm: Doug Walker 71165,2274
To: Syndesis 76004,1763
Hey, that's legal, according to the ANSI standard! #pragma is, in my opinion, a misfeature of the standard because there is no regulation or registration of pragmas. Any other solution would have been ugly and disgusting, too, however, so we run with what we've got. Basically, the #pragma statement allows the vendor to claim full ANSI compliance but still include machine-dependant things – two inherently contradictory goals, but both necessary/valuable. –Doug