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[Dik T. Winter]

> And of course, you wouldn't want a compiler that when faced with
> a type error just said "syntax error"

You would prefer a compiler that said "syntax error" followed by "too
many errors, goodbye" with a line number after the last line? (The
very first C compiler I did use did that with my very first C program.)

 

[NevilleDNZ]

ALGOL 68 also gave these to the C programming language:
c.f. http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/cpp/Pragmas.html

eg
#pragma GCC poison printf sprintf fprintf
sprintf(some_string, "hello");


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