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[llvm-windres] Implement the windres flag --use-temp-file
Whether a temp file or a pipe is used for preprocessing is an
internal detail, this flag has a notable effect on the preprocessing
in GNU windres. Without this flag, GNU windres passes command
arguments as-is to popen(), which means they get evaluated by a
shell without being re-escaped for this case. To mimic this,
llvm-windres has manually tried to unescape arguments.
When GNU windres is given the --use-temp-file flag, it uses a
different API for invoking the preprocessor, and this API takes care
of preserving special characters in the command line arguments.
For users of GNU windres, this means that by using --use-temp-file,
they don't need to do the (quite terrible) double escaping of
quotes/spaces etc.
The xz project uses the --use-temp-file flag when invoking
GNU windres, see
tukaani-project/xz@6b117d3.
However as llvm-windres didn't implement this flag and just
assumed the GNU windres popen() behaviour, they had to use a
different codepath for llvm-windres.
That separate codepath for llvm-windres broke later when llvm-windres
got slightly more accurate unescaping of lone quotes in
0f4c6b1 /
https://reviews.llvm.org/D146848 (fixing a discrepancy to GNU
windres as found in llvm#57334),
and this was reported in
mstorsjo/llvm-mingw#363.
Not touching the implementation of the --preprocessor option
with respect to the --use-temp-file flag; that option is doubly
tricky as GNU windres changed its behaviour in a backwards incompatible
way recently (and llvm-windres currently matches the old behaviour).
(See
https://sourceware.org/git/?p=binutils-gdb.git;a=commitdiff;h=21c33bcbe36377abf01614fb1b9be439a3b6de20,
https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=27594 and
https://sourceware.org/git/?p=binutils-gdb.git;a=commitdiff;h=5edb8e3f5ad8d74a83fc0df7f6e4514eed0aa77f;hp=3abbafc2aacc6706fea3e3e326e2f08d107c3672
for the behaviour change.)
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D159223
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