Re: Pragma Comment -- What does it do?

[Tucker Taft <stt@averstar.com>]

Ted Dennison wrote:
> 
> In article <19991110154624.8876.rocketmail@web210.mail.yahoo.com>,
>   comp.lang.ada@ada.eu.org wrote:
> > Does anyone know what do the following pragmas do?
> >
> > 1. Pragma Comment
> > I see it inside some code, and it compiles fine,
> > but it appears nowhere else thereafter.
> > So I wonder, if its just a line inside the source,
> > why dont I just have a comment line -- to begin with?
> 
> The language defines no such pragma. Consult your compiler documentation
> to see what they do with it. Since unrecognized pragmas are ignored, its
> quite possible that this is just someone's gooberish way of commenting
> their code. If so, please do change it to a *real* comment.

On some implementations, this has the effect of embedding the
comment in the generated code (e.g. as a static initialized string),
which is sometimes useful for a copyright message, or a revision number
indicator.  Unix programs like "strings" and "what" can be used to
view these messages.

> T.E.D.

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