Re: [PATCH] specify arguments to debugee from commandline (second try)

[David Deephanphongs <deephan at telocity dot com>]

Thus spake Eli Zaretskii (eliz@delorie.com):

> > From: Tom Tromey <tromey@redhat.com>
> > Date: 06 Apr 2001 12:12:22 -0600
> > 
> > I'm not sure I follow you though.  Are you saying that some other
> > approach should be taken?  If so, what?
> 
> No, I'm saying that I don't think this problem has a general
> solution.  So we should decide up front what cases we want to support
> and which ones not.

I'm not convinced that we want to support any special handling...
We could force the user to just escape everything appropriately:

If they want equivalent to:
set args "this is a" test
force them to do:
gdb echo -- \"this is a\" test

This is just like sed, grep, et al. do it.

Dave
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