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: David Deephanphongs <deephan@telocity.com>
> > 
<snip>
> > 
> > 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
> 
> But that's exactly what Tom was trying to avoid!  His intent was to
> allow substitution of "gdb COMMAND --run ARGS" for each case of
> "COMMAND ARGS" in a mechanical way, which means ARGS should not be
> modified in any way.

I'm still not convinced that it's appropriate for /gdb/ to do the
escaping - if it's being put into a script, it's much easier to do
it in perl than C..

What characters need to be escaped, anyway?  It seems like it much
differ from shell to shell.

Dave
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