vimgrep over arglist doesn't work on Windows

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What steps will reproduce the problem?
0. Use vim on Windows 

1. Have a few files in your arglist with full paths. 
E.g. 
\Work\test.py \Users\User\another.py

2. do the following command
:vimgrep /def/ ##

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
vimgrep should find all mentions of "def" in the two files in my arglist. 
Instead I get a long pause and finally an error complaining about a bad path 
Cannot open file "\\Work\\test.py"

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?
VIM - Vi IMproved 7.4 (2013 Aug 10, compiled Aug 25 2014 04:20:13)
MS-Windows 32-bit console version 
running on Win 8.1 x64

Please provide any additional information below.
The problem is presumably that when ## is expanded it doubles the backslash 
which isn't supported for vimgrep

Original issue reported on code.google.com by jonthoro...@gmail.com on 6 May 2015 at 1:43

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Could it be, that you have 'autochdir' set?
Does that also happen if you start vim with gvim -i NONE -N -u NONE
?

Original comment by chrisbr...@googlemail.com on 6 May 2015 at 3:33

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'autochdir' shouldn't be relevant here since the leading '\' in the paths means 
they're relative to the root of the drive.

I'm able to reproduce the behavior with 7.4.493.

Original comment by vega.james@gmail.com on 6 May 2015 at 4:36

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https://github.com/jamessan/vim/commit/935b2ba0d85c37536b1dd76624283181378182f2.
patch should resolve the issue.

Original comment by vega.james@gmail.com on 6 May 2015 at 4:59

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Original comment by chrisbr...@googlemail.com on 28 May 2015 at 7:25

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