peternilsson42 wrote: > 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. > ok I'm missing the OBVIOUS point. MS has had bugs everywhere....someone ought to nuke IBM for the stupid \ crap and MS for having any bugs relating to it (which version of NT by the way....it seems damned unlikely since they recognized either / or \ for decades
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