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Pragmas and Other Key Compiler Directives

Pragmas

Pragma clauses are compiler directives, which have the general form shown below:

%  pragma pragma_category  identifierOPT  pragma_argument_clauseOPT  ;

Pragma categories may be either language-defined or implementation defined. An identifier following the category indicator is typically an identifier from the packetC program, such as a variable or a user-defined type name. Legal arguments for a given category may be either language or implementation defined. The language-defined categories are:

  • control category pragmas govern the relationships with the control plane
  • data ...

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