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- From: thp@cs.ucr.edu (Tom Payne)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.c,comp.std.c
- Subject: Re: Integral conversion e.t.c. (was: Re: Hungarian notation)
- Followup-To: comp.lang.c,comp.std.c
- Date: 15 Feb 1996 18:07:05 GMT
- Organization: University of California, Riverside Department of Computer Science
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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.
-
-
- Specifically:
-
- The `#pragma' command is specified in the ANSI standard to have an
- arbitrary implementation-defined effect. In the GNU C preprocessor,
- `#pragma' ifrst attempts to run the game `rogue'; if that fails, it
- tries to run the game `hack'; if that fails, it tries to run GNU
- Emacs displaying the Tower of Hanoi; if that fails, it reports a
- fatal error. In any case preprocessing does not continue.
- -- Manual for the GNU C preprocessor for GNU CC 1.34:
-
- Perhaps "malice" should be made of meaner stuff.
-
- Tom Payne (thp@cs.ucr.edu)
-