From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Daniel Jacobowitz To: Tom Tromey Cc: Andrew Cagney , Michael Snyder , gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: RFC: Inferior command line arguments Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2001 14:22:00 -0000 Message-id: <20010928172306.A31877@nevyn.them.org> References: <87zo7gq7gb.fsf@creche.redhat.com> <3BB4C04D.22C3DAB5@cygnus.com> <877kuji2b7.fsf@creche.redhat.com> <20010928145938.A13638@nevyn.them.org> <3BB4CF12.3020900@cygnus.com> <20010928154217.A17406@nevyn.them.org> <87vgi3f1f1.fsf@creche.redhat.com> X-SW-Source: 2001-09/msg00438.html On Fri, Sep 28, 2001 at 03:30:58PM -0600, Tom Tromey wrote: > >>>>> "Daniel" == Daniel Jacobowitz writes: > > Daniel> As much as I'd prefer '--' (those objections, while completely > Daniel> correct, could be overcome with a bit of work; I admit I > Daniel> hadn't thought of them), I'd rather see '---' than --args --, > Daniel> because it doesn't allow for the confusing semantics of > Daniel> '--args' without the '--'. > > I'm not really a fan of `---'. It doesn't seem visible enough. > > I might be able to make `--args' end argument processing. Then you > would write: > > gdb --args gdb -nw > > and debug `gdb -nw'. What would you think of this? While I would prefer '--', that doesn't seem practical; if --args ended argument processing, I'd be satisfied with that. -- Daniel Jacobowitz Carnegie Mellon University MontaVista Software Debian GNU/Linux Developer