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:

     I'm writing a package that accepts arbitrary character
strings from the command line, and I'm trying to debug it with
gdb.

    When run without gdb the command line string is passed
directly to my program, but when I tell gdb to pass it, gdb
insists on interpreting it as a filename, and won't pass it
through.

Example without gdb:
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./testtoken ' (name testtoken endchar \) < testtoken.adb |
(trace) count lines|cons '

Input string is:
....+....1....+....2....+....3....+....4....+....5....+....6
(name testtoken endchar \) < testtoken.adb | (trace) count lines
cons

    Before: TokenFrom =   1
            TextLeft  =  71
    After:  TokenFrom =   1
            TextLeft  =  71
Token  1 is: ' (name testtoken endchar \) < testtoken.adb |
(trace) count lines|cons '

End of tokens reached.

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Example with gdb:
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gdb testtoken --args ' (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"...
(name testtoken endchar \) < testtoken.adb | (trace) count lines
cons : No such file or directory.
(gdb)
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        I have tried using the 'run PROGNAME ARGUMENTS...' method, but
it gives 
me the same results.  I have attached the source code and a
terminal session showing exactly what I have tried, so that you
can (presumably) duplicate my results.  Perhaps I am
misunderstanding somehow the proper gdb syntax to be used, or
have wrong versions of tools?

Leslie