On 2/26/2013 4:50 PM, Vladimir Panteleev wrote:
On Sunday, 3 February 2013 at 00:37:55 UTC, David Nadlinger wrote:
1) Provide an Open Source clean-room implementation of response_expand, the
function the DMD frontend uses to parse response files. Unfortunately, it is
under the copyright belongs (partly?) to Symantec, so Walter can't simply
re-license it for use in GDC/LDC, where it is needed to provide DMD
compatibility (gdmd/ldmd). For the full discussion, see:
http://forum.dlang.org/thread/kdce69%24303k%[email protected]
DMD response files use the same escaping syntax as the CommandLineToArgvW
function.
As I recall, that was the intent. I wrote it, however, before there was a
CommandLineToArgvW function, so much of its behavior was determined by trial and
error on how DOS dealt with command lines.
Such is inferrable from its intent, which was to enable command lines longer
than DOS allowed.
