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Re: [PATCH] Bulletproofing -fsyntax-only, round 2 (extra armourplate)
- To: Nix <nix at esperi dot demon dot co dot uk>
- Subject: Re: [PATCH] Bulletproofing -fsyntax-only, round 2 (extra armourplate)
- From: Alan Modra <alan at linuxcare dot com dot au>
- Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2000 11:33:03 +1000 (EST)
- cc: gcc-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org
On 13 Jun 2000, Nix wrote:
> "Mark E." <snowball3@bigfoot.com> writes:
>
> > Someone else already noted that '/dev/null' is fine with DJGPP. But "NUL:"
> > should be "NUL" (no colon) please.
>
> OK; I imagine that's to avoid screwing up the otherwise `special'
> semantics of : in DOS pathnames?
No, it's simply a matter of being correct. "NUL" is the special file name
recognized by dos as a /dev/null equivalent. You can add a colon if you
like, but it's not necessary. eg. "COPY somefile NUL"
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