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to: mark lewis
from: Nicholas Boel
date: 2016-11-24 10:20:14
subject: Fmail, HPT and FastEcho

Hello mark,

On 24 Nov 16 10:07, mark lewis wrote to Nicholas Boel:

 WV>>>> If they are both linux gnu c, what can be different between the
 WV>>>> two?

 ml>>> path separators and drive letters...

This was the original question and answer.

 NB>> He's referring to an X86 system running Linux, and an ARM device
 NB>> also running Linux. There is no difference with path separators
 NB>> and drive letters, but binaries can not be swapped between the
 NB>> two systems.

 ml> yes, i know... but winwhatever does have drive letters and the path
 ml> separators lean the other way... so true cross-platform code takes
 ml> these differences into account no matter which compiler is used...
 ml> generally speaking it comes down to using predefined variables...

Winwhatever wasn't involved in the original question, is what we're getting at.

[trimmed unnecessary explanation of path separators and drive letters]

:)

Regards,
Nick

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