From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Andi Kleen <andi@zero.aec.at>
To: law@cygnus.com
Cc: egcs@cygnus.com
Subject: Re: Desire gcc option to skip warnings in standard headers 
Date: Tue, 30 Jun 1998 09:03:00 -0000
Message-id: <19980630145900.23408.qmail@zero.aec.at>
References: <15759.899189718@hurl.cygnus.com>
X-SW-Source: 1998-06/msg01119.html

In message < 15759.899189718@hurl.cygnus.com >you write:
>
>  In message < 199806291617.SAA24744@jolan.ppro >you write:
>  > A #pragma seems more logical, and more flexible too.
>pragmas are generally frowned upon in gcc.  You'll have a hard time
>convincing anyone to accept new ones.

Many of the reasons why pragmas are disliked (not usable in macros
etc.) are gone with the ISO C9x _Pragma() construct. Of course there
could be still name collisions of pragma names with other compilers, 
but that can be easily fixed which a #ifdef (and __attribute__ needs 
#ifdef magic too)


-Andi