Bug #16284 2009-09-19 13:29

euspectre

Backslash chars are handled incorrectly in custom variables

The problem occurs with my C/C++ project if I add a custom variable that contains '\' characters.

I select menu item "Project" -> "Build Options", "Custom Variables" tab and create a variable with name (key), say, pkgdatadir and the value like the following:

D:\\xwork\\data

This is used, for example, to be able to pass options like the following to the compiler:

-DDATADIR=\""$(pkgdatadir)"\"

DATADIR is used in the C source files in this project. So far so good, the project builds ok, the variable has exactly the same value as I have specified.

Now I close and reopen this project (or just close Code::Blocks and then launch it again).

But now 'pkgdatadir' variable is different:

D:\xwork\data

instead of

D:\\xwork\\data

This may result in build problems ("error: \x used with no following hex digits"), not critical but quite annoying.

Code::Blocks ver.: nightly build rev 5731;

OS: Windows XP Pro SP3 x86

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