Re: Quotes and Brackets In Include Directives

[Neil Booth <neil at daikokuya dot demon dot co dot uk>]

Eric Lemings wrote:-

> I always thought that:
> 
> #include <string.h>
> 
> would include the string.h header in the "system" include path while:
> 
> #include "string.h"
> 
> would include a different string.h header file in the "local" include
> path.
> 
> This doesn't seem to be the case in gcc-3.0.1 at least.  The first form
> is including the local version rather than the system version of the
> string.h header.  This never happened before 3.0.1.  Is this new
> behavior?  How do I distinguish the two header files?

The behaviour is described in the CPP manual.  If you don't think CPP
is conforming to that description, then please report a bug.

Roughly: "" and <> indicate which of two points to start the search in
a long chain of include paths.  By default, those two points are the
same.  In addition, "" looks first in the directory of the current
file.

I don't know what you mean by "local" include path.

Neil.