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Miscellaneous Preprocessing Directives
This section describes three additional preprocessing directives.
They are not very useful, but are mentioned for completeness.
The "null directive" consists of a `#' followed by a Newline, with
only whitespace (including comments) in between. A null directive is
understood as a preprocessing directive but has no effect on the
preprocessor output. The primary significance of the existence of the
null directive is that an input line consisting of just a `#' will
produce no output, rather than a line of output containing just a `#'.
Supposedly some old C programs contain such lines.
The ANSI standard specifies that the effect of the `#pragma'
directive is implementation-defined. In the GNU C preprocessor,
`#pragma' directives are not used, except for `#pragma once' (*note
Once-Only::.). However, they are left in the preprocessor output, so
they are available to the compilation pass.
The `#ident' directive is supported for compatibility with certain
other systems. It is followed by a line of text. On some systems, the
text is copied into a special place in the object file; on most systems,
the text is ignored and this directive has no effect. Typically
`#ident' is only used in header files supplied with those systems where
it is meaningful.
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