------- Comment #6 from pinskia at gcc dot gnu dot org 2010-09-06 06:48 ------- >I thought Stallman hated those things
The reason why Stallman hated them is that they did not work with macros and that changed with C99 adding support of _Pragma which can be used in macros now. So his argument against Pragma went away when that come in. -- http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=45553