Re: RFC: Inferior command line arguments

[Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@mvista.com>]

On Fri, Sep 28, 2001 at 03:27:14PM -0400, Andrew Cagney wrote:
> 
> Unfortunatly ``--'' already has certain semantics.  Detecting it 
> wouldn't be sufficient.  Consider things like:
> 
> 	--argument-expected --
> 	-- --poor-programe-name-choice --poor-core-file-choice
> 	gdb --args -- gdb --args -- program arg arg
> 
> Tom's --args -- is somewhat grotesque but at least it is well defined. 
> Something like:
> 
> 	gdb --- gdb --- program arg arg
> 
> might be possible but it is really sugar for ``--args --''.

As much as I'd prefer '--' (those objections, while completely correct,
could be overcome with a bit of work; I admit I hadn't thought of
them), I'd rather see '---' than --args --, because it doesn't allow
for the confusing semantics of '--args' without the '--'.

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