DJ Delorie wrote:
feature even on Unix systems. But on Unix systems I think we need to
at least consider the possibility of real source file names starting
with '@'. The patch as it stands will have a rather perplexing effect
if such a file is compiled. Maybe that's OK.
This is different from Mark's patch in that Mark's patch will cause
the application to exit when some @string doesn't reflect a response
file.
I'm not wedded to any of the technical details in my patch. If we get
to the point where all we have to do is agree on exactly how to handle
these kinds of things, I would consider that a victory!
I based my implementation on some experimentation with MSVC and on
reading the Microsoft documentation. But, I wouldn't claim that I
exhaustively matched the behavior; it wasn't well enough documented, and
I didn't experiment heavily enough.
If a condition for acceptance is making "@string" silently accepted if
"string" is not a file, for example, I'll happily implement that.
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Mark Mitchell
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