X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=sourceware.org; h=list-id :list-unsubscribe:list-subscribe:list-archive:list-post :list-help:sender:subject:to:references:from:message-id:date :mime-version:in-reply-to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; q=dns; s=default; b=pRik4S/jxyWQ6JWG GabwSDCTXAhw1KbVY1sqtlmy/Wj1uBiDrhfBMEvSyIv86yiW7lLsxzCsJmqlbjzs dpQb7nT92M9rBB509suvZIEeUE4ixQfL/8h7c5daty+WskgiRV53+fKRBCPqZQQc egWi288ReOqYIqMI6I1w5XJ88Rg= DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed; d=sourceware.org; h=list-id :list-unsubscribe:list-subscribe:list-archive:list-post :list-help:sender:subject:to:references:from:message-id:date :mime-version:in-reply-to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; s=default; bh=tz2QR/QNQMxD5OFWQQVMJf 5NHhM=; b=HpeVY33GpHeHdYiYskiSGhXlptGQO1XY3nB/KHV7KvDS5omMSq4VQS 2Sr6bPkyZoBwM/KmOOsBXKThZkomA3/IKsyAIGegTytfl3ljRfpBxoHp9ln/dZy1 TXeiMT7RBw5HOmUrB9xn6DdrH/sF4QpUSdBRhLt3bK5ZgEosCcgh0= Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-2.0 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW,SPF_PASS autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 X-HELO: mail-wm0-f49.google.com X-Received: by 10.28.210.137 with SMTP id j131mr6229891wmg.93.1448569205369; Thu, 26 Nov 2015 12:20:05 -0800 (PST) Subject: Re: Argument parsing with gcc compiled program To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com References: <91DCAC3CB99C724EB365BB64677FBE7B01DD4B AT MX204CL04 DOT corp DOT emc DOT com> From: Marco Atzeri Message-ID: <56576970.3030501@gmail.com> Date: Thu, 26 Nov 2015 21:20:00 +0100 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.3.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <91DCAC3CB99C724EB365BB64677FBE7B01DD4B@MX204CL04.corp.emc.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes On 26/11/2015 21:08, Gluszczak, Glenn wrote: > For some reason when I compile a C program in gcc, double backslashes within quotes are stripped. > But if I compile with Visual Studio this does not happen. I used a small > test program to demonstrate. > > VS > c:\msvc2010_SP1\VC>a.exe -s something "something d\:\\hello" > > Command-line arguments: > argv[0] a.exe > argv[1] -s > argv[2] something > argv[3] something d\:\\hello > CL: a.exe -s something "something d\:\\hello" > > > GCC > $ ./a.exe -s something "something d\:\\hello" > > Command-line arguments: > argv[0] ./a > argv[1] -s > argv[2] something > argv[3] something d\:\hello > CL: K:\sat-misc\src\sat-main\sat\src\wiz\a -s something "something d\:\hello" > > Is there some compiler option or setting I'm unaware of? > Thanks, > Glenn > bash is stripping the double backslashes when using " , try ' $ ./a.exe -s something 'something d\:\\hello' Command-line arguments: argv[0] ./a argv[1] -s argv[2] something argv[3] something d\:\\hello CL: "E:\cygwin64\tmp\a.exe" -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple