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Re: RFC: Inferior command line arguments


On Fri, Sep 28, 2001 at 03:30:58PM -0600, Tom Tromey wrote:
> >>>>> "Daniel" == Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@mvista.com> 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


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