About #sccs

[Luca Benini]

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 ... ;-)

Luca

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