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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Build failure on M$ (using MSVC): Patch enclosed
Date: Tue, 20 May 2008 21:26:58 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <u3aocj0gd.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <e3f230850805200158g11cc2140k7ae83ee78b73bb9d@mail.gmail.com>

> Date: Tue, 20 May 2008 14:28:04 +0530
> From: dhruva <dhruvakm@gmail.com>
> 
> -    (while (and (not (string= dir "/"))

Such unportable code should have never been allowed into the CVS, IMO.

Use of a literal "/" is almost always a telltale sign that the code
will only work on Posix filesystems.  Please avoid that.




  parent reply	other threads:[~2008-05-20 18:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-05-20  4:58 Build failure on M$ (using MSVC): Patch enclosed dhruva
2008-05-20  6:10 ` dhruva
2008-05-20  8:26   ` dhruva
2008-05-20  8:58     ` dhruva
2008-05-20  9:46       ` Jason Rumney
2008-05-20 10:21         ` David Kastrup
2008-05-20 11:57           ` dhruva
2008-05-20 12:01             ` dhruva
2008-05-20 18:26       ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2008-05-20 12:11     ` Herbert Euler
2008-05-20 18:30       ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-05-20 18:12 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-05-21  3:13   ` dhruva
2008-05-21 17:28     ` Stefan Monnier
2008-05-22  3:51       ` dhruva
2008-05-22  4:46         ` Stefan Monnier
2008-05-22  5:03           ` dhruva
2008-05-22  6:52             ` David Kastrup
2008-05-22  7:10               ` dhruva
2008-05-22  7:32                 ` David Kastrup
2008-05-22 15:49                 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-05-22 15:45               ` Stefan Monnier
2008-05-22  6:56             ` dhruva
2008-05-23  8:30               ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-05-23  9:15                 ` Jason Rumney
2008-05-22  8:32         ` Jason Rumney
2008-05-22  9:10           ` dhruva
2008-05-22  9:29             ` dhruva
2008-05-22 12:31               ` Jason Rumney
2008-05-22 13:10                 ` Jason Rumney
2008-05-22 13:33                   ` Miles Bader

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