Argument parsing with gcc compiled program

[Marco Atzeri]

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

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