Should warnings be issued for unrecognised pragmas ?

[Andreas Schwab]

Nick Clifton <nickc@cygnus.com> writes:

|> The '89 ANSI C standard says:
|> "Any pragma that is not recognized by the implementation is ignored."

|> It is my opinion that "ignoring" is not the same as "not issuing a
|> warning", if such warnings have been requested, and that it is
|> important to know if a compiler is ignoring pragmas as they may have
|> been intended to affect code generation.

|> Any comments ?

A compiler can emit as many warnings as it likes, as long as it correctly
compiles conforming code.

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