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From: "Alex R. Mosteo" <devnull@mailinator.com>
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Subject: Re: Ada.Command_Line and wildcards
Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2007 12:02:07 +0100
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gautier_niouzes@hotmail.com wrote:

>> This is an OS (shell) issue, surely?
> 
> Alas, no.
> I forgot to mention: I tested both programs on both Windows 98 and XP.

It would be in unix. There, wildcard expansion is a shell matter. Windows only
half-faked it.

What I mean is that if your code is to be run outside of a windows platform,
you'll not see wildcards in your arguments (unless you quote them, as someone
else has pointed elsethread).

But if gnat is deliberately doing expansion to emulate unix behavior, I guess
that should be documented in windows platforms...

> In both systems, the OA-compiled program gives "*.adb" and the GNAT-
> compiled the list of files with ".adb" extension.
> To Adrian, enclosing with '"' works, thanks, but then the syntax
> differs from the usual one for a command-line tool...
> I am just suprised by the GNAT behaviour, for two reasons:
>  - I did not find (or missed) something about it in the RM (95)
>  - there is also a GNAT.Command_Line that explicitely intends to do
> wildcard expansions; so why also GNAT's Ada.Command_Line should do it,
> silently ?
> 
> G.