From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: David Deephanphongs <deephan@telocity.com>
To: gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] specify arguments to debugee from commandline (second try)
Date: Fri, 06 Apr 2001 22:46:00 -0000
Message-id: <20010407015503.A15325@llamedos.org>
References: <20010330005457.A21793@llamedos.org> <20010330163603.A27435@llamedos.org> <20010403013600.B7630@llamedos.org> <87n19uirbk.fsf@creche.redhat.com>
X-SW-Source: 2001-04/msg00086.html

Thus spake Tom Tromey (tromey@redhat.com):

> >>>>> "David" == David Deephanphongs <deephan@erols.com> writes:
> 
> David> Con: breaks anything that uses core files that are named "--",
> David> although that's probably not too likely.
> 
> It is entirely possible that this case already doesn't work, due to
> the special handling of `--' in GNU getopt.  Has anybody tried it?

As it turns out, this /doesn't/ work.
Alright, the '--' way is an acceptable option.

Dave

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