I can't find a good definition anywhere...
Tom Neff
tneff at bfmny0.UUCP
Sun May 14 14:33:05 AEST 1989
In article <10257 at smoke.BRL.MIL> gwyn at smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn) writes:
>No! It is the implementation that I was saying is required to conform
>to the specifications of the Standard whether or not a program contains
>any particular construct (including #pragma). #pragma is not license
>for the implementation to suddenly ignore the constraints of the Standard.
Then there will be no conformant implementations and Doug's interpretation
will be vacuously correct. Every implementation I have encountered where
#pragma is supported has at least one way you can use it to do something
non-ANSI. Is this likely to reverse itself? Compilers have to live in
the real world, including the grungy goal of backward compatibility.
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