Sends a string literal to the standard output without terminating the compilation.

  
#pragma message( messagestring )  

A typical use of the message pragma is to display informational messages at compile time.

The messagestring parameter can be a macro that expands to a string literal, and you can concatenate such macros with string literals in any combination.

If you use a predefined macro in the message pragma, the macro should return a string, else you will have to convert the output of the macro to a string.

The following code fragment uses the message pragma to display messages during compilation:

// pragma_directives_message1.cpp  
// compile with: /LD  
#if _M_IX86 >= 500  
#pragma message("_M_IX86 >= 500")  
#endif  
  
#pragma message("")  
  
#pragma message( "Compiling " __FILE__ )   
#pragma message( "Last modified on " __TIMESTAMP__ )  
  
#pragma message("")  
  
// with line number  
#define STRING2(x) #x  
#define STRING(x) STRING2(x)  
  
#pragma message (__FILE__ "[" STRING(__LINE__) "]: test")  
  
#pragma message("")  

Pragma Directives and the __Pragma Keyword