pragma

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pragma - Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (26 May 2007) :

  pragma
  
     (pragmatic information) A standardised form of comment which
     has meaning to a compiler.  It may use a special syntax or
     a specific form within the normal comment syntax.  A pragma
     usually conveys non-essential information, often intended to
     help the compiler to optimise the program.
  
     (1994-11-08)