RE: why does command echo \\\foobar print \\foobar

Wait, you just said before, you that this is _Not _ passed to shell, remember, we did an experiment.  
That's the whole point, you said before, it _should_ be \foobar, that is what you had "expected", obviously based on some knowledge about GNU make's behavior.  


> With the makefile
> 
> foobar:
>                 echo \\\foobar
> why
> 
> C:\Temp>make foobar
> \\foobar
>