Error directive
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                    Shows the given error message and renders the program ill-formed.
Syntax
| #errorerror_message | |||||||||
Explanation
After encountering the #error directive, an implementation displays the diagnostic message error_message and renders the program ill-formed (the compilation stops). 
error_message can consist of several words not necessarily in quotes.
References
- C11 standard (ISO/IEC 9899:2011):
- 6.10.5 Error directive (p: 174)
 
- C99 standard (ISO/IEC 9899:1999):
- 6.10.5 Error directive (p: 159)
 
- C89/C90 standard (ISO/IEC 9899:1990):
- 3.8.5 Error directive
 
See also
| C++ documentation for Error directive |