Re: gdb hijacks my argument list

[Leslie Turriff]

Hi,
        Sorry for the delayed response.

        Yes, I have tried using the 'run PROGNAME ARGUMENTS...' method, but it 
gives 
me the same results.  I'll append 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

On Sunday 13 December 2009 06:37:30 Tribhuwan Kandpal wrote:
> Hi Leslie,
> I believe you want to pass the arguments to your program but you need to
> pass it within gdb. so give those arguments when you give run command 
> try this:
>  
> gdb your_program_name
>  
> now the gdb shell will open:
>  
> (gdb) run Write_the_arguments_of_your_program_here
>  
>  
> I believe it will help you
>  
> Thanks,
> Trib
>
> --- On Fri, 4/12/09, Leslie Turriff <address@hidden> wrote:
>
>
> From: Leslie Turriff <address@hidden>
> Subject: gdb hijacks my argument list
> To: address@hidden
> Date: Friday, 4 December, 2009, 2:36 PM
>
>
> 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:
> =================================================
> ./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.
>
> =================================================
>
> Example with gdb:
> =================================================
> 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)
> =================================================
>
>     How do I make gdb pass this string through to the program under test?
>
> Leslie
>
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