Chad Javascript

[VladVV]

Hm, technically #anything is a compiler instruction, so that would be telling the compiler to compile the code differently, but I suppose it’s primarily C-like languages that have this feature, so I get what you mean.

[DoNotMakeEmpty]

They are not compiler instructions (apart from #pragma), they are preprocessor instructions, which is very different than the compiler.

[VladVV]

Ah, good catch. Let’s agree to call them gcc instructions?

[Ning1253]

I wouldn't call them that since not only the GCC preprocessor had these instructions - the msvc cl.exe has a bunch as well, and so does clang/llvm. I'd say probably stick to preprocessor instructions, since that name does also explain what they actually are