RE: [bug #18517] Compilation error in find_directory() in dir.c on Windows platforms

[Martin Dorey]

> p[-1] = '\0';

What makes you think this is a compilation error?  Do you have a
compiler error message for us?  I suspect that you're just worried about
indexing an "array" with -1.  "p" isn't an array.  It's previously been
assigned by:

      p = name + strlen (name);

So -1 is only an invalid index if strlen(name) == 0.  I was going to say
"surely that never happens?" but I do see calls, albeit #ifdef AMIGA,
which do pass an empty string to find_directory.
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