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From: Martin Dowie <martin.dowie@btopenworld.com>
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Subject: Re: GNAT Normalize_Pathname version differences
Date: Wed, 18 Jan 2006 20:22:07 +0000 (UTC)
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Marc A. Criley wrote:
> (Posting this here for archive purposes to aid future Google Group 
> searches :-)
> 
> Somewhere between Gnat 3.15p and Gnat GPL 2005, the behavior of the 
> Normalize_Pathname function in Gnat.Directory_Operations changed.
> 
> The 3.15p version appended a '/' if the pathname was that of a 
> directory, at least in the Linux version, the GPL 2005 version does not. 
>  I can't say what it does on Windows, but I would expect the same 
> behavior, with the corresponding directory separator.
> 
> I diffed the sources of Directory_Operations for the two versions, and 
> saw there are significant differences between the Normalize_Pathname 
> implementations, as well as other things.

Might it be because they are using GNAT.Directory_Operations to 
implement Ada.Directories?

Cheers

-- Martin