Re: gdb hijacks my argument list

[Niklas Holsti <niklas.holsti@tidorum.invalid>]

Leslie wrote:
> Niklas Holsti wrote:
> 
>> Leslie wrote:
>>> Niklas Holsti wrote:
>>>
>>>> gdb --args testtoken ' (name testtoken endchar \) <
>>>>> testtoken.adb | (trace) count lines|cons '
>>> I get exactly the same result as before:
>>> ==================================
>>> gdb --args testtoken ' (name testtoken endchar \) <
>>> testtoken.adb | (trace) count lines|cons '
>> ...
>>> This GDB was configured as "i586-suse-linux"...
>>> testtoken: No such file or directory.
>> Well, perhaps GDB is right and there is no such file?
>>
>> Looking more carefully at your original question, at the
>> attached terminal session, it seems that your program is really
>> named "testcmdline", not "testtoken":
>>
>         Ack!  You're right; I changed the name of the program between
> times.  But it does the same thing with the correct program
> name:
> ================================
> gdb --args testcmdline ' (name testtoken endchar \) <
> testtoken.adb | (trace) count lines|cons '
> GNU gdb 6.8
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> This GDB was configured as "i586-suse-linux"...
> (gdb) 

You must also tell GDB to "run" the program at this point. So far, it 
has only read the program file (testcmdline) but has not started to 
execute the program. So type "run" to the "(gdb)" prompt.

-- 
Niklas Holsti
Tidorum Ltd
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