Date: Mon, 11 May 1998 12:23:44 +0300 (IDT)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: Andris Pavenis <pavenis AT lanet DOT lv>
cc: "Gurunandan R. Bhat" <grbhat AT unigoa DOT ernet DOT in>, djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: / and \ in gcc2.8.1
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On Sun, 10 May 1998, Gurunandan R. Bhat wrote:

> 	I find that a TMPDIR variable set to (a ramdisk) d:\ causes gcc 
> to Abort! without any further messages (even with -v). Changing it to d:/ 
> removes this problem. gcc2.7.2.1 worked with d:\

Andris, it seems like GCC 2.8.1 doesn't support backslashes as well as 
forward slashes, at least in TMPDIR.  IMHO this problem should be 
corrected ASAP.  A lot of people have TMPDIR defined with backslashes.

(Btw, does GCC look at TMP and TEMP as well as TMPDIR?)