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From: lai@mips.COM (David Lai)
Newsgroups: comp.std.c
Subject: strange filenames in __FILE__ macro
Message-ID: <26208@gumby.mips.COM>
Date: 25 Aug 89 16:37:46 GMT
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Does the standard specify what characters are legal for a filename.
Specifically, when the __FILE__ macro is expanded, does the preprocessor
have to perform special excape sequence translations.

As an example, in MS-DOS systems the '\' character is prevalent in pathnames,
does each '\' in the pathname get translated to '\\' when expanding __FILE__?

How about filenames with '"' or "'" or non-printing characters?
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