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Re: Attribute questions
- To: Stan Shebs <shebs at apple dot com>
- Subject: Re: Attribute questions
- From: Gabriel Dos Reis <Gabriel dot Dos-Reis at cmla dot ens-cachan dot fr>
- Date: 29 Jun 2001 20:34:36 +0200
- Cc: Mark Mitchell <mark at codesourcery dot com>, gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Organization: CMLA, ENS Cachan -- CNRS UMR 8536 (France)
- References: <42600000.993788170@warlock.codesourcery.com> <3B3CC6C4.594B99F4@apple.com>
Stan Shebs <shebs@apple.com> writes:
| Mark Mitchell wrote:
| >
| > 3. The manual contains anti-#pragma rhetoric. As far as I can tell,
| > that rhetoric isn't really longer valid.
|
| One of the reasons to keep it is to discourage people from adding
| and using pragmas willy-nilly. At least twice in the past several
| years I've talked to people who saw the editorializing in the GCC
| manual and were thereby discouraged from insisting on adding a pragma
| to the compiler. Users are always going to want to solve problems by
| hacking the compiler, and given that GCC sources are available for the
| hacking, the commentary in the manual is one of our few ways to head
| off this kind of thing before it becomes somebody's hard requirement.
I, for one, completely agree with your comments.
-- Gaby