On 28/08/2024 01.54, Arthur O'Dwyer via Std-Proposals wrote:
> (Of course it's possible that their answer is "/Nothing/ works in my environment, period; I will /never ever/ switch from #ifndef to #pragma once." In that case, the problem is solved, because we don't need to make GCC handle #pragma once in their environment — they'll never use it, so they'll never notice that it's missing.)

Not all code that wants to be compiled in a given environment
is necessarily home-grown.  Maybe a third-party code provider
has decided to switch to "#pragma once" because it has been
standardized.  However, now there is an expectation that it
works reliably everywhere, and we've seen good rationale it
doesn't.

We were in a situation where I could validly post a bug report
to the third-party library "your code is non-conforming; please
fix it".   In the future, we are in a situation where I can't do
that anymore, and I need to post a bug report to my compiler
vendor "#pragma once is broken".  And the answer probably
is "yes, sorry, the feature is unimplementable for certain
environmental conditions".

I much prefer the current situation over the future one,
also given that the disadvantages of not having "#pragma once"
are near-zero with current #ifdef short-cutting technology.

Jens
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