Re: [PATCH] ld: testsuite: Fix a few backslash-related issues on MinGW.

On 17.07.2026 12:59, Jan Beulich wrote:
[...]> Yet: Does it need to? If slashes work, can't ld simply use slashes?
Don't ask me — I wasn't involved in porting the GNU tools to 
Windows/MinGW. :-)

In any case, the tools built with MinGW are native Windows executables. 
They use the WinAPI directly, without a compatibility layer such as 
Cygwin. As a result, they can be invoked either from a Unix-like shell 
or from the rather crappy native Windows shell, cmd.exe, which doesn't 
always handle forward slashes gracefully. So I would say that it is 
quite common that these tools mix backward and forward slashes.

/J.D.