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authorAndreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>2008-10-30 10:07:16 +0000
committerAndreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>2008-10-30 10:07:16 +0000
commitc22261528c50f7760dd6a2e29314662b377eebb4 (patch)
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* infcmd.c (construct_inferior_arguments): Handle newlines
specially. testsuite/: * gdb.base/args.exp: Add tests for newlines.
Diffstat (limited to 'gdb/infcmd.c')
-rw-r--r--gdb/infcmd.c20
1 files changed, 16 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/gdb/infcmd.c b/gdb/infcmd.c
index 8060af5..607d2b3 100644
--- a/gdb/infcmd.c
+++ b/gdb/infcmd.c
@@ -270,7 +270,7 @@ construct_inferior_arguments (struct gdbarch *gdbarch, int argc, char **argv)
/* We over-compute the size. It shouldn't matter. */
for (i = 0; i < argc; ++i)
- length += 2 * strlen (argv[i]) + 1 + 2 * (argv[i][0] == '\0');
+ length += 3 * strlen (argv[i]) + 1 + 2 * (argv[i][0] == '\0');
result = (char *) xmalloc (length);
out = result;
@@ -290,9 +290,21 @@ construct_inferior_arguments (struct gdbarch *gdbarch, int argc, char **argv)
{
for (cp = argv[i]; *cp; ++cp)
{
- if (strchr (special, *cp) != NULL)
- *out++ = '\\';
- *out++ = *cp;
+ if (*cp == '\n')
+ {
+ /* A newline cannot be quoted with a backslash (it
+ just disappears), only by putting it inside
+ quotes. */
+ *out++ = '\'';
+ *out++ = '\n';
+ *out++ = '\'';
+ }
+ else
+ {
+ if (strchr (special, *cp) != NULL)
+ *out++ = '\\';
+ *out++ = *cp;
+ }
}
}
}