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From: Corinna Vinschen <vinschen@redhat.com>
To: gdb@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: Question about args.exp test
Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2004 08:07:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040422073334.GC1486@cygbert.vinschen.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040421184448.GB5956@nevyn.them.org>

On Apr 21 14:44, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 21, 2004 at 06:40:40PM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> > Why is args.exp expecting two apostrophes and who's supposed to add them?
> > The args testapplication apparently isn't.
> 
> IIRC, the comments are wrong.  The tests can not be fixed for the ARM
> simulator, though - I spent several days trying.  Trace the path that
> argv takes through from the GDB prompt to the inferior main(), if you
> want some gruesome entertainment:
>   - it is word split by GDB before invoking the sim
>   - it is reconstructed into a string by the sim/RDI interface
>   - it is word split again in either newlib or libgloss, in handwritten
>     assembly
> 
> The interface simply does not permit properly quoted arguments.

Uh, that explains it.

Thanks for the description,
Corinna


  reply	other threads:[~2004-04-22  7:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-04-21 18:33 Corinna Vinschen
2004-04-21 19:19 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2004-04-22  8:07   ` Corinna Vinschen [this message]
2004-04-22 14:20     ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2004-04-22 14:27       ` Andrew Cagney
2004-04-22 14:30         ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2004-04-22 15:19           ` Andrew Cagney

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