Thanks, guys! I hadn't tried #error, since I didn't actually want to cause an error. But #warning works, thanks so much! -Mark Eljay Love-Jensen wrote: > > For GCC (at least, GCC 3.3.1): > > #warning "This is a warning" > > #error "This is an error" > > I'm not 100% sure, but I think #warning is an extension. And #error is in > the standard. > > For an "info" you may want to use this convention: > > #warning "INFO: this is informative" > > HTH, > --Eljay Falk Hueffner wrote: > > Mark Minich <mminich@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > > > In some other compilers, I can output a message, warning, > > or error from the preprocessor with one of the following > > directives (which vary from one compiler to another): > > > > #info "my message" > > #warn "my message" > > #error "my message" > > > > or > > > > #pragma info "my message" > > #pragma warn "my message" > > #pragma error "my message" > > > > ...or other similar syntax. > > > > I tried various combinations of these, and I looked in the > > online GNU manual under pragmas and preprocessor directives, > > but I found nothing like these. > > That's weird. #error works and needs to, because the standard mandates > it. gcc also has #warning. > > -- > Falk Eljay Love-Jensen wrote: > > For GCC (at least, GCC 3.3.1): > > #warning "This is a warning" > > #error "This is an error" > > I'm not 100% sure, but I think #warning is an extension. And #error is in > the standard. > > For an "info" you may want to use this convention: > > #warning "INFO: this is informative" > > HTH, > --Eljay ----------------------------------------- ============================================================ The information contained in this message may be privileged and confidential and protected from disclosure. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, or an employee or agent responsible for delivering this message to the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any reproduction, dissemination or distribution of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please notify us immediately by replying to the message and deleting it from your computer. Thank you. Tellabs ============================================================