[llvm-dev] RFC: Support for preferring paths with forward slashes on Windows

[Reid Kleckner via llvm-dev]

Thanks for working on this! I think this mode is a long time coming.

On Fri, Oct 15, 2021 at 1:53 PM Martin Storsjö via llvm-dev <
llvm-dev at lists.llvm.org> wrote:

> On Fri, 15 Oct 2021, Michael Kruse wrote:
>
> > I also noticed is that the paths printed by clang -v or -### are
> > escaping the backslashes and put them into quotes, i.e.
> > "C:\\path\\to\\clang.exe" -cc1 "..\\special'^`character .c"
> > Interestingly, it still works copy&pasting it to the Windows command
> > line [2], but cmd.exe's escape character is ^ and PowerShell's is the
> > backtick `. What would the correct output be?
>
> I wasn't aware that cmd.exe had an escape char per se (other than ^ for
> line continuations?).
>
> The fact that such slashes are printed double is, iirc, an intentional
> quirk, so that the command lines are copypasteable in a variety of
> contexts: cmd.exe don't need them doubled (but tolerates them), bash
> unescapes them so it also can execute them.
>

Yep, I was going to say that.


> This is actually one downside of using forward slashes, as cmd.exe
> wouldn't be able to execute such a command straight out (only the slash
> direction of the command executable itself matters though).
>

I think as long as the user has a way to choose between the styles, they've
got what they need to unblock themselves.
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