[m-rev.] for review: set runtime flags at compile time

[Fergus Henderson]

On 12-Jan-2002, Simon Taylor <stayl at cs.mu.OZ.AU> wrote:
> 
> Allow Mercury runtime options to be set at compile time.
...
> --- util/mkinit.c	18 Dec 2001 05:44:13 -0000	1.80
...
> +	printf("	MR_runtime_flags = \"");
> +	for (list_tmp = runtime_flags;
> +			list_tmp != NULL; list_tmp = list_tmp->next) {
> +		fputs(list_tmp->data, stdout);

Using fputs() here is wrong.  Any special characters --
in particular '\"', '\\' and '\n' -- need to be quoted.

This may be particularly important in this case of run-time options
which are file names when using DOS/Windows, since they are quite
likely to include \\.

-- 
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