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From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
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To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org, j@uriah.heep.sax.de
Subject: Re: `const char rcsid[]' vs -traditional
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>> >What does the C standard say about #ident?

>> #ident is a syntax error.

>What about ``#pragma ident''?

It is implementation-defined, and old implementations of gcc define it
as exec'ing /usr/games/hack ... :-).  This was to make the point that
#pragma is useless.

Bruce