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Re: [Bug preprocessor/19361] New: -MT option does not escape funny characters
- From: Neil Booth <neil at daikokuya dot co dot uk>
- To: abbott at dima dot unige dot it <gcc-bugzilla at gcc dot gnu dot org>
- Cc: gcc-bugs at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2005 00:01:19 +0900
- Subject: Re: [Bug preprocessor/19361] New: -MT option does not escape funny characters
- References: <20050110141652.19361.abbott@dima.unige.it>
abbott at dima dot unige dot it wrote:-
> The -MT option really does use precisely the specified string as the target.
> It would be better if spaces (and other funny characters) were
> escaped (using backslash) in the output.
>
> Note: for my purposes it would be enough to follow the proposal in
> bug #15185 that there be an option to force the full path name in
> the target.
>
> EXAMPLE: compare the outputs of the following two calls to gcc
> $ touch my\ prog.c
> $ gcc -MM my\ prog.c
> my\ prog.o: my\ prog.c
> $ gcc -MM my\ prog.c -MT my\ prog.o
> my prog.o: my\ prog.c
>
> I am inclined to say that the second output is wrong.
What's wrong with -MQ?