[prerok]

What I find strange is that <> traditionally included system header files and "" included local files. They used different include paths, so you could have a header file in your sources with the same name as the system header file and then could control whether you are including one or the other based on using <> or "".

Anyway, I thought the distinction was lost in later compilers in favor of a single include path and then just taking the first file found when looking at potential matches through include path.

It seems the author of that merge thought the same thing. So, the distinction is actually still used by compilers?

[pavon]

With both GCC and Visual C++, the “” form first searches local paths and then system paths, while the <> form only searches system paths. Guess some BSDs are stricter about local paths.