Re: Ada.Command_Line.Argument_Count question

[Gautier write-only <gautier_niouzes@hotmail.com>]

On 16 Sep., 20:43, Keith Thompson <ks...@mib.org> wrote:

[about names with wildcards expanded or not into separate arguments]

> The behavior you describe has nothing to do with the compiler, at
> least not on Unix-like systems.  If you type
>     ./my_program *.adb
> in a Unix shell, my_program will see a list of file names; it will
> have no way to know that the list is the result of expanding a
> wildcard expression.  All the processing happens in the shell.  And of
> course programs can be invoked by other programs, not just by the
> shell.

There are exceptions to that. If you type:
unzip archive.zip *.adb
the "*.adb" will, even on Unix, fortunately *not* be expanded...

> On other systems, though, the Ada.Command_Line implementation might
> (optionally?) do some additional processing.

On Windows, the shell doesn't seem to do the expansion, but on the run-
time library side, GNAT does it and Aonix doesn't...
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