[Raion]

Does uh, any other non GCC compiler support #pragma comment as a way to insert comments into a finished binary? 

Apparently not only does mipspro support this, but I've never seen it used on any other compiler.

[robespierre]

I believe the syntax is

Code:

#pragma ident "$Revision: 69.69 $"

based on the discussion here.

However, the compiler also supports SCCS tags using the #ident preprocessor command,

Code:

#ident  "$Revision: 1.46 $"

which is the usual syntax. This is traditional Unix SCCS stuff and every Unix C compiler has it.

[Raion]

I didn't know that #ident was the equivalent but the way that mipspro stores text symbols is unusual.

[vishnu]

Using macros is old school and bypasses relevant compiler warnings, use const char instead.

[Raion]

What do you mean? What if you want to leave a message in the binary for debugging purposes? Just leave it as a const char variable?

Also you'd have a headache based on how SGI handled pragmas.

#pragma set woff is used liberally in doprnt.c (the libc printf implementation. We are currently reversed engineering it and apparently it's used like 10 times in that file.)

[vishnu]

All you have to do is run the strings program on the binary, thus finding out what text the programmers thought was important enough to program in.