Re: DOS Options

[Adam Beneschan <adam@irvine.com>]

On Dec 19, 2:59 pm, "Randy Brukardt" <ra...@rrsoftware.com> wrote:
> "Gautier" <gaut...@fakeaddress.nil> wrote in message
>
> news:476973a3$1_5@news.bluewin.ch...
> ...
>
> > Your 3.15p is certainly the Windows version, and what you are seeing is a
> Win32
> > console output. Indeed, you need to congratulate Microsoft which decided
> to
> > parse and separate the arguments in Win32 in a fashion consistent with
> DOS -
> > adding the parsing of filenames containing spaces, enclosed by "".
> > Ada.Command_Line.Argument(i) just gives the "ith" argument from the
> system, as
> > the system wants to give it, that's it.
>
> I have no idea what you are talking about. Both MS-DOS and Win32 only
> provide a single string as the result of the command line -- the system
> provides no parsing whatsoever. For Win32, the function is GetCommandLine.
> In DOS, you had to grab the string from the memory of your executable
> process -- there isn't even a function to get it.

Windows does appear to have a CommandLineToArgvW function that parses
the command line (or whatever string you give it).  I don't know
whether GNAT uses it.  I'm pretty sure that not all C compilers use
it---the MINGW32 version, I believe, does its own parsing, in whatever
startup routine is linked into the program before main() is called.

                                -- Adam