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From: Ted Dennison <dennison@telepath.com>
Subject: Re: Pragma Comment -- What does it do?
Date: 1999/11/11
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In article <3829E70A.FEC8915B@pwfl.com>,
  condicma@pwflcom wrote:
> Ted Dennison wrote:
>
> > In article <19991110154624.8876.rocketmail@web210.mail.yahoo.com>,
> >   comp.lang.ada@ada.eu.org wrote:
> > > 1. Pragma Comment
> >
> > The language defines no such pragma. Consult your compiler
> > documentation to see what they do with it. Since unrecognized
> Here's a guess: Some compilers provide the ability to get character
> data embedded into the ROMable part of the code. For practical
> purposes, this is a "comment". The idea is that you may want to embed
> module information, version numberings, copyright notices ("When you
> care enough to steal the very best!") or other information that may
> ride along with the ROM image. It sounds like a "pragma Comment" might
> be doing this job.

Hmmm...clever. I suppose just putting that info in an unused string
might not do the job, as the string is liable to get optimized away.

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