Vic Wagner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > peternilsson42 wrote: > > Vic Wagner <joel@> wrote: > > > '/' is a valid path delimiter in ALL STANDARD C++ > > > implementations and their runtimes. > > > > That's a big call since: a) the C++ standard doesn't have > > any requirements on file path delimeters; and b) as > > recently as last year, some installations of Windows NT > > required a patch to allow recognition of forward slash as > > a path delimiter for stat(). > > stat() isn't standard
You're missing the obvious point. Runtime implementations _rely_ on host system calls. Parts of the host system not recognising forward slash won't necessarily invalidate the conformance of an implementation on such systems. -- Peter
