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Adjust comments around split_into_argv() to clarify that it's not

*Windows's* command-line splitting rules we're mimicking here; it's
VC7's, and they're not the same as VC10's.

[originally from svn r9748]
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Simon Tatham 2013-01-19 17:17:44 +00:00
parent 896f9f2256
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@ -170,12 +170,12 @@ char *GetDlgItemText_alloc(HWND hwnd, int id)
}
/*
* Split a complete command line into argc/argv, attempting to do
* it exactly the same way Windows itself would do it (so that
* console utilities, which receive argc and argv from Windows,
* will have their command lines processed in the same way as GUI
* utilities which get a whole command line and must break it
* themselves).
* Split a complete command line into argc/argv, attempting to do it
* exactly the same way the Visual Studio C library would do it (so
* that our console utilities, which receive argc and argv already
* broken apart by the C library, will have their command lines
* processed in the same way as the GUI utilities which get a whole
* command line and must call this function).
*
* Does not modify the input command line.
*
@ -196,7 +196,17 @@ void split_into_argv(char *cmdline, int *argc, char ***argv,
int outputargc;
/*
* At first glance the rules appeared to be:
* These argument-breaking rules apply to Visual Studio 7, which
* is currently the compiler expected to be used for PuTTY. Visual
* Studio 10 has different rules, lacking the curious mod 3
* behaviour of consecutive quotes described below; I presume they
* fixed a bug. As and when we migrate to a newer compiler, we'll
* have to adjust this to match; however, for the moment we
* faithfully imitate in our GUI utilities what our CLI utilities
* can't be prevented from doing.
*
* When I investigated this, at first glance the rules appeared to
* be:
*
* - Single quotes are not special characters.
*