Re: gdb hijacks my argument list

["John B. Matthews" <nospam@nospam.invalid>]

In article <hhvlc7$nc8$1@news.albasani.net>,
 Leslie <jlturriff@centurytel.net> wrote:

> Niklas Holsti wrote:
> 
> > gdb --args testtoken ' (name testtoken endchar \) <
> > > testtoken.adb | (trace) count lines|cons '
> 
> I get exactly the same result as before:

This older version of gdb lacks the --args feature, but `set args` and 
`show args` seem to work. Some of the tokens in your arg string appear 
to be shell operators and commands. You may have to evaluate the string 
in a shell and feed the result to args.

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GDB was configured as "i386-apple-darwin"...Reading symbols for shared 
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(gdb) set args ' (name testtoken endchar \) < testtoken.adb | (trace) count lines|cons '
(gdb) show args
Argument list to give program being debugged when it is started is
"' (name testtoken endchar \) < testtoken.adb | (trace) count lines|cons '".
(gdb)
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