From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Tom Tromey <tromey@redhat.com>
To: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@mvista.com>
Cc: Michael Snyder <msnyder@cygnus.com>, gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: RFC: Inferior command line arguments
Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2001 12:24:00 -0000
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X-SW-Source: 2001-09/msg00429.html

>>>>> "Daniel" == Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@mvista.com> writes:

>> It might be possible to have `--args' stop all other argument
>> processing.  I haven't investigated that.

Daniel> Rather than continue down this path, I'd much rather see us
Daniel> fix or fork GNU getopt so that we can detect the presence of
Daniel> '--'; I'd think in fact we could do it without having to go
Daniel> through all these hoops, but I haven't actually looked at the
Daniel> code.

Using `--' as an indicator that gdb should use the remaining arguments
as inferior command-line option is an incompatible change.  Right now
you can invoke:

    gdb -- file core

This is equivalent to:

    gdb file core

I personally don't care about this, but I've tried to avoid
incompatible changes on the theory that it will make it harder for me
to get a patch in.

Tom