Re: Target-specific pragmas

[Neil Booth <neil at daikokuya dot demon dot co dot uk>]

Stan Shebs wrote:-

> Undeterred by the embarassment of pascal strings :-), I'm sweeping on
> to Apple's steamy pile of target-specific pragmas.  While it's actually
> quite pleasant to redo our old pragmas with the new cpplib machinery
> (thanks Zack!), some of the pragmas themselves are pretty dubious,
> and I'm hoping to find that nobody uses them.  Anyway, the worthwhile
> ones raise a couple questions:

If we go down the road of more pragmas, then please follow the
convention of putting them in the GCC namespace, and deprecating usage
with no namespace.  Sometime in the future we'd like to remove support
for pragmas with no namespace, but obviously that cannot be done for
some time yet.

Neil.