Mail Archives: djgpp/1994/06/10/18:21:03
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> Djgpp seems to be pretty good at accepting either forward or backward slashes
> in most places. I believe it used to be pickier. For that matter, DOS also
> accepts either style slash anywhere except on the command line. If you do
> manage to get the wrong style slashes into one of the programs, it will tell
> you this by failing to find a file or something similar. I see places in the
> GO32 source code where \ get translated to /, so I suppose the forward slash
> is "correct".
GCC will barf if you give it include paths with backslashes in it,
since it thinks they're supposed to be escapes instead of directory
separators. Always use forward slashes [/] for *_INCLUDE_PATH.
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