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From: "Gluszczak, Glenn" <glenn DOT gluszczak AT emc DOT com>
To: "cygwin AT cygwin DOT com" <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject: RE: Argument parsing with gcc compiled program
Date: Fri, 27 Nov 2015 16:55:13 +0000
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>On Fri, Nov 27, 2015 at 5:03 PM, Gluszczak, Glenn  wrote:

> Please look at my example again.  The same program compiled with Visual Studio does *not*
> strip out the backslash whether run in cmd.exe or bash.exe.  Other utilities like Perl
> do not strip out the backslash either.  It is only programs I compile with Cygwin gcc that do this.

>Windows Perl or Cygwin Perl ?
>
>Csaba

You're correct about Perl, my bad.  My path in my CMD was pointing to Windows Perl.
Windows Perl does not strip out the backslash. Cygwin Perl is stripping out the backslash.

$ cat a.pl
$pcount = 0;
while ( $pcount <= ($#ARGV )) {
    printf("%s\n",$ARGV[$pcount]);
    $pcount ++;
}

$ perl a.pl -s "dsfgdsfgfsg d\:\\hello"
-s
dsfgdsfgfsg d\:\hello

K:\> c:\cygwin\bin\perl a.pl -s "dsfgdsfgfsg d\:\\hello"
-s
dsfgdsfgfsg d\:\hello

So if I compile with MS Visual Studio, binaries do not strip backslashes out of
arguments whether run in bash or cmd.  

If I compile with Cygwin gcc, backslashes are stripped whether in bash or cmd.

This looks like a compiler issue to me unless someone knows of an option.