From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Mumit Khan <khan@xraylith.wisc.edu>
To: Jeffrey A Law <law@cygnus.com>
Cc: "egcs@cygnus.com" <egcs@cygnus.com>
Subject: Re: Desire gcc option to skip warnings in standard headers 
Date: Tue, 30 Jun 1998 23:15:00 -0000
Message-id: <Pine.SUN.3.93.980630234820.25847H-100000@modi.xraylith.wisc.edu>
References: <15759.899189718@hurl.cygnus.com>
X-SW-Source: 1998-07/msg00014.html

On Tue, 30 Jun 1998, Jeffrey A Law wrote:

> 
> pragmas are generally frowned upon in gcc.  You'll have a hard time
> convincing anyone to accept new ones.
> 

And for good reasons in most cases. However, what if the native API
requires it (especially if the native headers are unusable w/out it)?

Now I'm having second thoughts submitting patches for Win32 specific
pragmas (sysv like #pragma pack with a slight twist, and also push/pop 
of packing stack) ... these are all necessary thanks to you know who.

Mumit