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Sometimes I need to use a gcc for cross-platform work, and sometimes gcc really amuses me with its warnings. For example:
#pragma once in a main file
This is very informative warning, but I really don’t know what a ‘main file’ IS in terminology of gcc and WHY it must not contain #pragma once :). So, does any documentation exist that covers all gcc warnings and errors (mostly warnings, errors are trivial) with some comments on them?
The objective of ‘
#pragma once‘ is to prevent a header from being reincluded. If you have it in a source file (usually a ‘.c’ file), you won’t be reading that twice (normally – I do know of a source file that reincludes itself [and I don’t like it]; it does not use or want#pragma once, though!). So, a ‘main file’ in this context is one listed on the command line, for instance, rather than a header.As to the subject matter of the question – the GCC manual does not seem to have a comprehensive list. I don’t know whether there actually is one.