From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Michael Snyder <msnyder@cygnus.com>
To: "Deephanphongs, David" <david@enikia.com>
Cc: gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] specify arguments to debugee from commandline (secondtry)
Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2001 13:10:00 -0000
Message-id: <3B33A634.559D5309@cygnus.com>
References: <EA40DE1AE299F7438D04527ACE8DD3D408CC29@mail.enikia.com>
X-SW-Source: 2001-06/msg00382.html

"Deephanphongs, David" wrote:
> 
> Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > On Thu, 7 Jun 2001, David Deephanphongs wrote:
> > > GDB will escape the following characters within an inferior argument:
> > > ^|&#<>\"'`$*?[](); \{}
> > >                   ^----space
> >
> > The function which implements this should be OS-dependent.  What you
> > wrote might work for /bin/sh, but not for non-Posix systems such as
> > MS-Windows.
> 
> I've been trying to figure out how to do this..
> My problem is that I haven't figured out where the target-specific
> initialization occurs in GDB.
> Is it just dependent on which files get linked in?

All initialization in GDB occurs in functions whose names
begin with "_initialize".  Look in any *-tdep.c file.