Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: cygwin@cygwin.com From: Shankar Unni Subject: Re: gdb passes different argv/argc to mingw & cygwin Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2003 16:15:11 -0700 Lines: 12 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 Netscape/7.1 (Compact) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en In-Reply-To: Sam Steingold wrote: > args='"4 4" '"'5 5'" What you're seeing is the side-effect of how mingw-compiled programs handle wildcards. mingw-compiled programs automatically link in support for wildcard expansion of arguments passed in via the Windows GetCommandLine(). So you'll often see extra quotes being consumed, and other such effects. It's unavoidable when dealing with Windows.. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/