On Fri, 01 Feb 2008 09:51:49 -0500, David H. Lynch Jr. wrote: >I have not been able to find any reason one would need either pragma >with current versions of gcc. Those two pragmas stem from ancient pre-ISO C++ times and are indeed unneedeed. If gcc only sees '#pragma interface' , it thinks everything is a definition of the interface and will not create vtables. Philipp