Another sizeof question

[Doug Gwyn]

In article <3928 at male.EBay.Sun.COM> diamond at tkou02.enet.dec.com (diamond at tkovoa) writes:
>If this is really true, it defeats the purpose of #pragma.  My understanding
>was that #pragma may have any implementation-defined effect WHICH does not
>change the meaning of a conforming program (though it may change the effect
>of a nonconforming program).  That definition would have been far more useful.

That was my argument, but when Walter Murray requested a formal ruling on
this, even I had to agree that the wording in the C standard leads to the
conclusion that a strictly conforming program cannot use #pragma.