Piotr Dobrogost added the comment: Sure, something like "The purpose of this function is to construct a string which will be later interpreted by MS C runtime as denoting a sequence of arguments. Because of this the string is built in such a way as to preserve the original characters when interpreted by MS C runtime. For example a double quotation mark is preceded by the backslash so that MS C runtime would translate this back to the original double quotation mark according to its rules which are given below as a reference:"
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