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Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2007 21:12:10 +0100
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Jean-Pierre Rosen:

> I think it is a gcc feature. Because gcc is often used to port Unix 
> applications to Windows, the gcc library emulates Unix behaviour on 
> windows.

I seems so (after some search on the Web with keywords like "gcc argv command 
line wildcard expansion"). In that case a gcc executable also emulates a 
feature of a kind of a hypothetic, UNIX-like shell calling it... Bizarre.
Indeed, I have nothing against it, but if I want to call my tool that way:

mytool -r *.adb

(-r meaning recurse into directories)

it just won't work. But nothing to worry too much about. Thank to all for the 
comments, and please do not hurt each other in OS-holy wars about this little 
topic. Happy programming!
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