}
/*
- * Split a complete command line into argc/argv, attempting to do
- * it exactly the same way Windows itself would do it (so that
- * console utilities, which receive argc and argv from Windows,
- * will have their command lines processed in the same way as GUI
- * utilities which get a whole command line and must break it
- * themselves).
+ * Split a complete command line into argc/argv, attempting to do it
+ * exactly the same way the Visual Studio C library would do it (so
+ * that our console utilities, which receive argc and argv already
+ * broken apart by the C library, will have their command lines
+ * processed in the same way as the GUI utilities which get a whole
+ * command line and must call this function).
*
* Does not modify the input command line.
*
int outputargc;
/*
- * At first glance the rules appeared to be:
+ * These argument-breaking rules apply to Visual Studio 7, which
+ * is currently the compiler expected to be used for PuTTY. Visual
+ * Studio 10 has different rules, lacking the curious mod 3
+ * behaviour of consecutive quotes described below; I presume they
+ * fixed a bug. As and when we migrate to a newer compiler, we'll
+ * have to adjust this to match; however, for the moment we
+ * faithfully imitate in our GUI utilities what our CLI utilities
+ * can't be prevented from doing.
+ *
+ * When I investigated this, at first glance the rules appeared to
+ * be:
*
* - Single quotes are not special characters.
*