Re: [PATCH v4 8/9] gdb/testsuite: support passing inferior arguments with native-gdbserver board

[Simon Marchi <simark@simark.ca>]

On 2020-05-19 1:11 p.m., Simon Marchi wrote:
> On 2020-05-15 1:29 p.m., Tom de Vries wrote:
>> The curly braces are what you get when you directly convert a list of
>> strings into a string.
>>
>> If we do the conversion ourselves, we get the desired outcome:
>> ...
>> $ cat test.tcl
>> #!/usr/bin/tclsh
>>
>> set args [list hello "with spaces" world]
>>
>> proc string_list_to_string_with_quotes { args } {
>>     set s ""
>>     foreach arg $args {
>>         set s "$s \"$arg\""
>>     }
>>     return $s
>> }
>>
>> set args_str [string_list_to_string_with_quotes {*}$args]
>> puts "run $args_str"
>> $ ./test.tcl
>> run  "hello" "with spaces" "world"
>> ...
>>
>> And we can use the normal "args" rather than the inferior_args, as long
>> as we take care to pass the args from one varargs function to another
>> using '{*}$args'.
> 
> I'm fine with both ways, do you have a preference?
> 
> Simon
> 

In fact, I think I'd rather not use "args", because that would make it more
difficult to add other parameters in the future.  So I'd keep "inferior_args",
although we can make it accept a list instead of a string, and apply the
treatment you have shown above.

Or, I like the procedures that accept optional arguments using shell-like switches,
so we could do:

  set inferior_args [list a b c]
  gdb_run_cmd -inferior-args $inferior_args

This is untested, I always forget how tcl converts between strings and lists
exactly, but you should see the point.  That makes it easier to add other parameters
in the future.

Simon