gdb hijacks my argument list

[Leslie Turriff]

Hi,

        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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        How do I make gdb pass this string through to the program under test?

Leslie