Supported Pragma Directives

The Wave preprocessor library supports a couple of specific #pragma directives, which may be used to control some of the library features. All directives described here are usable as conventional #pragma directives and as operator _Pragma (if variadics are enabled). So for instance the following directives are functionally identical:

    #pragma wave trace(enable)  

and

    _Pragma("wave trace(enable)")

All Wave specific pragma's must have the general form 'wave option[(value)]', where 'wave' is the specific keyword, 'option' is the concrete pragma functionality to trigger and 'value' is an optional value to be supplied to the 'option' functionality. The following table lists all possible pragma functions supported by the Wave library.

Supported pragma's

pragma option

pragma value

description

supported by

trace

enable/on/1
disable/off/0

Enable or disable the tracing of the macro expansion process. This is needed, even if there is given the --trace command line option, because the trace output is generated only, if there is at least one trace(enable) pragma found.

Wave library

stop

message

Stop the execution of Wave and print out the given message. This is very helpful for direct debugging purposes.

Wave library

system

command

Try to spawn the 'command' as a new operating system command and intercept the generated stdout and stderr. The stdout output of this command (if any) is retokenized and used as the replacement text for the whole pragma, the stderr output is ignored. The command is considered to be successful, if/when the return value is zero, otherwise an error is reported.

Wave library

timer

restart/0
<no value>
suspend
resume

The value restart set the current elapsed time to 0 and restarts the timer.
If no value is provided, the current elpsed time is printed to the std::cerr stream.
The values suspend and resume allow to temporarily stop the timing.

Wave driver

All pragma's not listed here but flagged as 'wave' are reported as errors. The handling of all remaining pragma's depends on the compilation constant WAVE_RETURN_PRAGMA_DIRECTIVES, which allows to specify, if those pragmas are left unchanged in the output stream or not. Please note, that the operator _Pragma variant is always subject to full preprocessing, before the pragma itself is evaluated. The #pragma variant is subject to preprocessing only, if the WAVE_PREPROCESS_PRAGMA_BODY compilation constant was specified during compilation.For more information about the possible compilation constants look here.

Additionally the Wave preprocessor supports the #pragma once directive, which specifies that the file, in which the pragma resides, will be included (opened) only once by the compiler in a build. This may be used to optimize the preprocessing of larger compilation units, which include a lot of files.


Last updated: Monday, January 5, 2004 14:57