[bug #51297] Better support for escaping of function parameters

[Paul D. Smith]

Update of bug #51297 (project make):

                  Status:                    None => Duplicate              
             Open/Closed:                    Open => Closed                 

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Follow-up Comment #1:

It's important to understand that in GNU make (unlike the shell, for example)
splitting of arguments in function invocations is done _before_ the arguments
are expanded.

So, you don't have to worry about special characters embedded in variables
making a hash of your expansion.  If they're not present directly in the call,
they're not special.

So for example, this works fine:


foo = abcd, 234, (fo"o), bar'))

show = 1: |$1|

$(info $(call show,$(foo)))


will show:


1: |abcd, 234, (fo"o), bar'))|


This is true of all make functions that take arguments.  As a result there's
very little reason to need something that will escape a string, to keep it
from being interpreted by make functions.

It is useful to be able to escape whitespace and some other characters, in
some contexts (but this is NOT needed to delimit arguments to make functions).
 But that's bug #712 as already noted, so we don't need another bug for this.

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