Quotes and Brackets In Include Directives

Neil Booth neil@daikokuya.demon.co.uk
Tue Sep 4 23:19:00 GMT 2001


Tim Hollebeek wrote:-

> You thought wrong.  The relevant standards have always mandated that
> the "" search list be a superset of the <> include search list.

I don't think so, this has just been historical practice since K&R.
The standards don't even mention the concept of search path.  They
just say that how you go from quoted text, of either form, to a source
file is implementation defined.

So we defined it, but no-one reads it 8-(

Neil.



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