Subject: Re: bug with gcc with findfirst/findnext
From: [email-masked] (Anders Norlander)

7 Nov 1998 04:05:48 -0800
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root wrote:
> 
> The functions
> _findfirst
> and
> _findnext
> Will not work with the last version of gcc (mingw32).
[snip]
> It will list only the first file and then STOP!!!
> _findnext returns inexplicably -1!!!!
> 
> I have discovered this problem with egcs because... lcc-win32 has the SAME
> problem. With exactly the same symptoms.
> 
> What is REALLY WEIRD is that if you run the same executable that fails under
> the msvc debugger, it will work!!!
> 
> If you run the same executable that fails under wedit, lcc-win32's debugger,
> it will work too!
> 
> If you compile with gcc, gdb will NOT make that work, probably because it is
> a console mode debugger.
> 
> If you use *the same code* in a windows program, it will work. The problem
> appears only in console applications.
> 
> Have any of you any clues to what the hell is going on there?

The wildcards on the command line arguments are expanded so only
the first file (in argv[1]) will be listed. I don't know why they
are not expanded in the debugger though.

Anders Norlander
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