I\'ve read that there is some compiler optimization when using #pragma once
which can result in faster compilation. I recognize that is non-standard, and thus
Additional note to the people thinking that an automatic one-time-only inclusion of header files is always desired: I build code generators using double or multiple inclusion of header files since decades. Especially for generation of protocol library stubs I find it very comfortable to have a extremely portable and powerful code generator with no additional tools and languages. I'm not the only developer using this scheme as this blogs X-Macros show. This wouldn't be possible to do without the missing automatic guarding.