https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=65820
Paul Robinson <paul_robinson at playstation dot sony.com> changed:
What |Removed |Added
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Status|UNCONFIRMED |RESOLVED
Resolution|--- |INVALID
--- Comment #1 from Paul Robinson <paul_robinson at playstation dot sony.com>
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tl;dr: Never Mind.
Somebody experimented with this on FreeBSD, apparently the BSD Make
doesn't do backslash-quoting at all, so this request would break
dependency files there.
And, it seems that while GNU Make will prefer to treat multiple
backslashes as escapes, if that doesn't find a matching file, it
will fall back to the original filespec-as-written. So as long
as you don't mix files with different numbers of backslashes in
the same directory, it should actually work out.
Sigh.
