Re: Make -exec-run and -exec-until into 'real' MI commands

[Daniel Jacobowitz <dan at codesourcery dot com>]

On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 11:13:24PM +0300, Vladimir Prus wrote:
> I think that only "\"" won't be preserved. While "a b" will be present in reconstructed
> string with quotes.

Won't we have problems with Windows paths, for example?

-exec-run 'c:\My Documents\test' "c:\My Documents\test"

% exec /usr/bin/gdb 'c:\My Documents\test' "c:\My Documents\test"

But the MI parser is going to turn that second \t into a tab
if I'm not mistaken.  This is a really hard transformation to
reverse.

> I believe the fact that no known frontends use args was raised the last time,
> but you still wanted to assume they exist.

Blech, I hate having to argue with myself.

I suggest asking for a second opinion then.  I don't think this
quoting is good enough to be a good idea.  I think we can get away
without it for -exec-run.  I don't know about -exec-until.

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Daniel Jacobowitz
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