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- From: ladavac@aut.alcatel.at (Marino Ladavac)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.c,comp.std.c
- Subject: Re: Integral conversion e.t.c. (was: Re: Hungarian notation)
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- Date: 15 Feb 1996 15:44:48 GMT
- Organization: Alcatel Austria AG
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- Mike McCarty (jmccarty@spd.dsccc.com) wrote:
-
- : Let's not overlook malicious compiler writers. Rumor has it that a
- : certain compiler writer (who shall remain nameless, but who supposedly
- : has associations with something which might be called FSF) decided that
- : he did not like the fact that "#pragma" as described by ANSI was allowed
- : to do whatever the compiler writer liked. So he made all "#pragma"s jump
- : to a subroutine in the compiler to run the Towers of Hanoi puzzle, and
- : not output any code. Supposedly, later, that was removed.
-
- Hmm, I remember the rumor that gcc execve'd /usr/games/rogue when it
- encountered #pragma. I guess it was just a rumor.
-
- /Alby
-