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Re: About #sccs
- From: Nathan Sidwell <nathan at codesourcery dot com>
- To: Luca Benini <lbenini at csr dot unibo dot it>
- Cc: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Mon, 06 Dec 2004 12:24:06 +0000
- Subject: Re: About #sccs
- Organization: Codesourcery LLC
- References: <41B41AD6.8080402@csr.unibo.it>
Luca Benini wrote:
Hi all,
I found in (cpp.info.gz) this
[cpp info]
The `#sccs' directive is recognized, because it appears in the
header files of some systems. It is a very old, obscure, extension
which we did not invent, and we have been unable to find any
documentation of what it should do, so GCC simply ignores it.
[Sun FORTRAN 77 4.0 User Guide)
Some developers put one or more SCCS ID keywords into each file, but
that is optional. These keywords are later identified with a version
number each time the files are checked in with an SCCS get or delget
command. There are three likely places to put these strings:[...]
I believe i've resolved the Obscure, the Arcane mister of #sccs ... ;-)
we know #sccs is something to do with SCCS, but what is not known is what it
should do to the resulting object file. The sun manual appears to
indicate that you can put $Id$ in a fortran file.
nathan
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