Re: RFC: Inferior command line arguments

[Tom Tromey <tromey at redhat dot com>]

>>>>> "Daniel" == Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@mvista.com> writes:

>> It might be possible to have `--args' stop all other argument
>> processing.  I haven't investigated that.

Daniel> Rather than continue down this path, I'd much rather see us
Daniel> fix or fork GNU getopt so that we can detect the presence of
Daniel> '--'; I'd think in fact we could do it without having to go
Daniel> through all these hoops, but I haven't actually looked at the
Daniel> code.

Using `--' as an indicator that gdb should use the remaining arguments
as inferior command-line option is an incompatible change.  Right now
you can invoke:

    gdb -- file core

This is equivalent to:

    gdb file core

I personally don't care about this, but I've tried to avoid
incompatible changes on the theory that it will make it harder for me
to get a patch in.

Tom