https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=93244
--- Comment #3 from Orgad Shaneh <orgads at gmail dot com> --- Thank you! I've noticed in your changed that only on cygwin double leading slashes are preserved. Why is that? I think it should be the same on all _WIN32 compilers, like MinGW. A shared folder is accessed by \\server\share\file.