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Re: Question about args.exp test
On Apr 21 14:44, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 21, 2004 at 06:40:40PM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> > Why is args.exp expecting two apostrophes and who's supposed to add them?
> > The args testapplication apparently isn't.
>
> IIRC, the comments are wrong. The tests can not be fixed for the ARM
> simulator, though - I spent several days trying. Trace the path that
> argv takes through from the GDB prompt to the inferior main(), if you
> want some gruesome entertainment:
> - it is word split by GDB before invoking the sim
> - it is reconstructed into a string by the sim/RDI interface
> - it is word split again in either newlib or libgloss, in handwritten
> assembly
>
> The interface simply does not permit properly quoted arguments.
Uh, that explains it.
Thanks for the description,
Corinna