This is the mail archive of the
gcc@gcc.gnu.org
mailing list for the GCC project.
Re: Quotes and Brackets In Include Directives
- To: Eric Lemings <eric dot b dot lemings at lmco dot com>
- Subject: Re: Quotes and Brackets In Include Directives
- From: Robert Boehne <rboehne at ricardo-us dot com>
- Date: Tue, 04 Sep 2001 14:49:07 -0500
- CC: gcc at gnu dot org
- Organization: Ricardo Software
- References: <3B952FB8.2AD2B6C8@lmco.com>
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?
>
> Thanks,
> Eric.
GCC fixes all of the system's include files and puts them
in its own directories, so you wouldn't have any "system"
headers at all.
--
Robert Boehne Software Engineer
Ricardo Software Chicago Technical Center
TEL: (630)789-0003 x. 238
FAX: (630)789-0127
email: rboehne@ricardo-us.com