When using mingw64, should the file path use A or B-CodePudding

I use mingw64 to write c programs on Windows 10. I heard that the c compiler is ported from Linux to Windows, and the separators used in the file path of Windows and Linux are different, so should I use "/" or "\" when writing programs?

CodePudding user response：

Always use /. The Windows API understands C:/ as well as C:\ while for Posix systems \ is a character like any other, so one directory can be actually be named foo\bar in such systems. Programs aiming for portability use / as a directory separator.

CodePudding user response：

Apart from Ted Lyngmo's answer, \ sometimes used to escape the next character, example: before my edit, your question did not show the \ character, the second " in "\" was shown as " instead of \".

So, use / to avoid confusion.

Example of a mistake that happens due to \:

#include <stdio.h>

int main() {
    puts("\");
}

will cause an error in usual compilers saying missing terminating " character.

And paths such as C:\example\abc\x20 will become gibberish text and one thing that I am sure is that \x20 will become a space, and pass the compiler error detection.