Re: [Freeglut-developer] #pragma comment (lib, ...) is Visual C++ Specific

[Stephen J B. <sj...@li...>]

Nigel Stewart and Fiona Smith wrote:
> 
>> The change to CVS would be to surround the three blocks
>> of #pragma in freeglut_std.h with the apprioriate #ifdef
>> tests.
> 
> 
> There is also a pragma in freeglut_window.c
> 
> 167: #pragma message( "fgSetupPixelFormat(): there is still some work to 
> do here!" )

We shouldn't use #pragma - it's completely system dependent...even if it's
within an #if 0 block.

There was once a version of gcc which started a game of NetHack whenever
it encountered a #pragma.  Such behaviour is perfectly within the specification
of the C language.

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