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Disclaimer: Most native build tools have poor support for escaping certain values. CMake has work-arounds for many cases but some values may just not be possible to pass correctly. If a value does not seem to be escaped correctly, do not attempt to work-around the problem by adding escape sequences to the value. Your work-around may break in a future version of CMake that has improved escape support. Instead consider defining the macro in a (configured) header file. Then report the limitation. Known limitations include: ============= ======================== ``#`` Broken almost everywhere. ``;`` Broken in VS IDE 7.0 and Borland Makefiles. ``,`` Broken in VS IDE. ``%`` Broken in some cases in NMake. ``& |`` Broken in some cases on MinGW. ``^ < > \ "`` Broken in most Make tools on Windows. ============= ======================== CMake does not reject these values outright because they do work in some cases. Use with caution.