[Dev-C++] BC++, gcc and Win98SE shell

[<gi...@li...>]

Hello list,

here is one, funny, thing of which I have no explanation:

consider the following program:

/* echo.c */
#include <stdio.h>

int
main(int argc, char **argv)
{
   while (--argc)
     printf("%s ", *++argv);

   return 0;
}

I compiled it using:
GNU gcc 2.95 shipped with Dev-C++ (gcc -o echo_g.exe echo.c)
BC++ 5.5 of thge "Borland free command line tools" (bcc32 -eecho_b.exe 
echo.c).

Then I've "touched" the files "foo.c" and "bar.c" and tried the following:

   command            output
echo_g *.c           bar.c foo.c
echo_b *.c           *.c

All of this on Win98SE.
Is there somebody that can tell what is going on?
Is this bug(?) common to the shell of other Windows systems too?

TIA

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