cpp handling of -I~

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From: Thomas A Peterson
Date: Wed, 03 Nov 1993 15:09

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Is there a reason why the C preprocessor does not do tilde expansion of
include directory names?

aristotle$ gcc -I~tap/ -c foo.c
foo.c:1: foo.h: No such file or directory
aristotle$ gcc -I/src/users/tap/ -c foo.c
aristotle$ echo ~tap
/src/users/tap
aristotle$

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