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From: "Gluszczak, Glenn" <glenn DOT gluszczak AT emc DOT com>
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Subject: Re: Argument parsing with gcc compiled program
Date: Fri, 27 Nov 2015 17:33:45 +0000
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>* From: Marco Atzeri <marco dot atzeri at gmail dot com>
>* To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
>* Date: Fri, 27 Nov 2015 18:08:44 +0100
>* Subject: Re: Argument parsing with gcc compiled program
>* Authentication-results: sourceware.org; auth=none
>* References: <CAO1jNwu2RXpCn2JuaZEhGaFA4_UTW9dxPxRcoasRuUBwgbRQgA at mail dot gmail dot com> <91DCAC3CB99C724EB365BB64677FBE7B01DFDC >at MX204CL04 dot corp dot emc dot com>
>________________________________________

>On 27/11/2015 17:55, Gluszczak, Glenn wrote:
>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.

>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.

>https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2004-07/msg01036.html


Thanks for the email reference.  Cygwin.dll always strips backslashes so I'm stuck compiling with VS, ok.

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