/// retry with the unmodified original string.
///
/// GCC tries to accommodate both Make formats by escaping any space or #
-/// characters in the original filename, but not escaping any backslash
-/// characters. That way, filenames with backslashes will be handled
+/// characters in the original filename, but not escaping backslashes. The
+/// apparent intent is so that filenames with backslashes will be handled
/// correctly by BSD Make, and by GNU Make in its fallback mode of using the
/// unmodified original string; filenames with # or space characters aren't
/// supported by BSD Make at all, but will be handled correctly by GNU Make
/// due to the escaping.
///
-/// A corner case that GCC does not handle is when the original filename has
-/// a backslash immediately followed by # or space. It will therefore take a
-/// dependency from a directive such as
-/// #include "a\#b.h"
+/// A corner case that GCC gets only partly right is when the original filename
+/// has a backslash immediately followed by space or #. GNU Make would expect
+/// this backslash to be escaped; however GCC escapes the original backslash
+/// only when followed by space, not #. It will therefore take a dependency
+/// from a directive such as
+/// #include "a\ b\#c.h"
/// and emit it as
-/// a\\#b.h
+/// a\\\ b\\#c.h
/// which GNU Make will interpret as
-/// a\
+/// a\ b\
/// followed by a comment. Failing to find this file, it will fall back to the
-/// original string, and look for
-/// a\\#b.h
-/// which probably doesn't exist either; in any case it won't find
-/// a\#b.h
+/// original string, which probably doesn't exist either; in any case it won't
+/// find
+/// a\ b\#c.h
/// which is the actual filename specified by the include directive.
///
-/// Clang escapes space, # and $ like GCC does, but also handles the case of
-/// backslash immediately preceding space or # by doubling those backslashes.
-/// This means Clang will emit the dependency from
-/// #include "a\#b.h"
-/// as
-/// a\\\#b.h
-/// which GNU Make will un-escape into
-/// a\#b.h
-/// which is the correct original filename.
+/// Clang does what GCC does, rather than what GNU Make expects.
///
/// NMake/Jom has a different set of scary characters, but wraps filespecs in
/// double-quotes to avoid misinterpreting them; see
OS << Filename;
return;
}
+ assert(OutputFormat == DependencyOutputFormat::Make);
for (unsigned i = 0, e = Filename.size(); i != e; ++i) {
- if (Filename[i] == ' ' || Filename[i] == '#') {
+ if (Filename[i] == '#') // Handle '#' the broken gcc way.
+ OS << '\\';
+ else if (Filename[i] == ' ') { // Handle space correctly.
OS << '\\';
unsigned j = i;
while (j > 0 && Filename[--j] == '\\')
#include "##.h"
#include "normal.h"
-// Backslash followed by # or space is handled differently than GCC does,
-// because GCC doesn't emit this obscure corner case the way GNU Make wants it.
-// CHECK: a\b\\\#c\\\ d.h
+// Backslash followed by # or space should escape both characters, because
+// that's what GNU Make wants. GCC does the right thing with space, but not
+// #, so Clang does too. (There should be 3 backslashes before the #.)
+// CHECK: a\b\\#c\\\ d.h
// These combinations are just another case for NMAKE.
// NMAKE: "a\b\#c\ d.h"