From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: David Deephanphongs <deephan@telocity.com>
To: gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: RFC: Inferior command line arguments
Date: Sat, 29 Sep 2001 01:23:00 -0000
Message-id: <20010929042717.B8313@llamedos.org>
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X-SW-Source: 2001-09/msg00448.html

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


Have you seen my patch?  getopt only reorders the arguments that
it has already processed.  So, if you detect --args, and break out
of the argument-processing loop, argv[optind] is equal to the
target name, and argv[optind+1] ... argv[argc-1] are the
target's arguments.

How are you handling the fact that you don't know what the target
is until far later in the code?

Dave

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