[MinGW-dvlpr] scandir( )/alphasort( ) for libmingwex

Sat Jul 26 21:55:00 GMT 2003

>>>>> "Mohan" == Mohan Embar <gnustuff@thisiscool.com> writes:

Mohan> For example, lines like this:
Mohan> buffer[i] = ch == '.' ? '/' : ch;
Mohan> would need to become
Mohan> buffer[i] = (ch=='.' || IS_DIR_SEPARATOR(ch)) ? DIR_SEPARATOR : ch
Mohan> to properly canonicalize the cached paths. I envisioned the
Mohan> arm-twisting needed to explain the rationale behind this to
Mohan> Tom, who's already got a massive backlog, and got demotivated.
It's no trouble -- Andrew would be reviewing this :-)
Seriously, something like that could be wrapped in some more graceful
macro. I don't think the idea is really controversial; we want gcj to
work on Windows.
Tom