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Date: Tue, 05 Jan 2010 13:39:19 +0200
From: Niklas Holsti <niklas.holsti@tidorum.invalid>
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Subject: Re: gdb hijacks my argument list
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Date: 2010-01-05T13:39:19+02:00
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Leslie wrote:
> Hi,
>         Has anyone else seen this problem with gdb?  I had originally
> posted it to bug-gdb@gnu.org, but got no useful response. 
> Original post:
> 
   ...
> Example with gdb:
> =================================================
> gdb testtoken --args ' (name testtoken endchar \) <
> testtoken.adb | (trace) count lines|cons '

According to "man gdb", the syntax for --args is:

    gdb [options] --args prog [arguments]

So the first thing after "--args" is the program name (prog), and *then* 
come the programs' arguments. Try this:

    gdb --args testtoken ' (name testtoken endchar \) <
 > testtoken.adb | (trace) count lines|cons '


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Niklas Holsti
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