From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mx2.suse.de (mx2.suse.de [195.135.220.15]) by sourceware.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id CC99C384A87E for ; Tue, 19 May 2020 18:46:47 +0000 (GMT) DMARC-Filter: OpenDMARC Filter v1.3.2 sourceware.org CC99C384A87E Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; dmarc=none (p=none dis=none) header.from=suse.de Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; spf=pass smtp.mailfrom=tdevries@suse.de X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at test-mx.suse.de Received: from relay2.suse.de (unknown [195.135.220.254]) by mx2.suse.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 74299ACA7; Tue, 19 May 2020 18:46:49 +0000 (UTC) Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 8/9] gdb/testsuite: support passing inferior arguments with native-gdbserver board To: Simon Marchi , Michael Weghorn , gdb-patches@sourceware.org Cc: Simon Marchi References: <20200429111638.1327262-1-m.weghorn@posteo.de> <20200513094758.523845-1-m.weghorn@posteo.de> <20200513094758.523845-8-m.weghorn@posteo.de> <55eba66f-4c1c-def8-3ea8-894a29fbe66c@simark.ca> <6970f13d-8044-f4bd-ba2b-b43b3467272b@simark.ca> From: Tom de Vries Autocrypt: addr=tdevries@suse.de; keydata= xsBNBF0ltCcBCADDhsUnMMdEXiHFfqJdXeRvgqSEUxLCy/pHek88ALuFnPTICTwkf4g7uSR7 HvOFUoUyu8oP5mNb4VZHy3Xy8KRZGaQuaOHNhZAT1xaVo6kxjswUi3vYgGJhFMiLuIHdApoc u5f7UbV+egYVxmkvVLSqsVD4pUgHeSoAcIlm3blZ1sDKviJCwaHxDQkVmSsGXImaAU+ViJ5l CwkvyiiIifWD2SoOuFexZyZ7RUddLosgsO0npVUYbl6dEMq2a5ijGF6/rBs1m3nAoIgpXk6P TCKlSWVW6OCneTaKM5C387972qREtiArTakRQIpvDJuiR2soGfdeJ6igGA1FZjU+IsM5ABEB AAHNH1RvbSBkZSBWcmllcyA8dGRldnJpZXNAc3VzZS5kZT7CwKsEEwEIAD4WIQSsnSe5hKbL MK1mGmjuhV2rbOJEoAUCXSW0JwIbAwUJA8JnAAULCQgHAgYVCgkICwIEFgIDAQIeAQIXgAAh CRDuhV2rbOJEoBYhBKydJ7mEpsswrWYaaO6FXats4kSgc48H/Ra2lq5p3dHsrlQLqM7N68Fo eRDf3PMevXyMlrCYDGLVncQwMw3O/AkousktXKQ42DPJh65zoXB22yUt8m0g12xkLax98KFJ 5NyUloa6HflLl+wQL/uZjIdNUQaHQLw3HKwRMVi4l0/Jh/TygYG1Dtm8I4o708JS4y8GQxoQ UL0z1OM9hyM3gI2WVTTyprsBHy2EjMOu/2Xpod95pF8f90zBLajy6qXEnxlcsqreMaqmkzKn 3KTZpWRxNAS/IH3FbGQ+3RpWkNGSJpwfEMVCeyK5a1n7yt1podd1ajY5mA1jcaUmGppqx827 8TqyteNe1B/pbiUt2L/WhnTgW1NC1QDOwE0EXSW0JwEIAM99H34Bu4MKM7HDJVt864MXbx7B 1M93wVlpJ7Uq+XDFD0A0hIal028j+h6jA6bhzWto4RUfDl/9mn1StngNVFovvwtfzbamp6+W pKHZm9X5YvlIwCx131kTxCNDcF+/adRW4n8CU3pZWYmNVqhMUiPLxElA6QhXTtVBh1RkjCZQ Kmbd1szvcOfaD8s+tJABJzNZsmO2hVuFwkDrRN8Jgrh92a+yHQPd9+RybW2l7sJv26nkUH5Z 5s84P6894ebgimcprJdAkjJTgprl1nhgvptU5M9Uv85Pferoh2groQEAtRPlCGrZ2/2qVNe9 XJfSYbiyedvApWcJs5DOByTaKkcAEQEAAcLAkwQYAQgAJhYhBKydJ7mEpsswrWYaaO6FXats 4kSgBQJdJbQnAhsMBQkDwmcAACEJEO6FXats4kSgFiEErJ0nuYSmyzCtZhpo7oVdq2ziRKD3 twf7BAQBZ8TqR812zKAD7biOnWIJ0McV72PFBxmLIHp24UVe0ZogtYMxSWKLg3csh0yLVwc7 H3vldzJ9AoK3Qxp0Q6K/rDOeUy3HMqewQGcqrsRRh0NXDIQk5CgSrZslPe47qIbe3O7ik/MC q31FNIAQJPmKXX25B115MMzkSKlv4udfx7KdyxHrTSkwWZArLQiEZj5KG4cCKhIoMygPTA3U yGaIvI/BGOtHZ7bEBVUCFDFfOWJ26IOCoPnSVUvKPEOH9dv+sNy7jyBsP5QxeTqwxC/1ZtNS DUCSFQjqA6bEGwM22dP8OUY6SC94x1G81A9/xbtm9LQxKm0EiDH8KBMLfQ== Message-ID: Date: Tue, 19 May 2020 20:46:43 +0200 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:68.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/68.5.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <6970f13d-8044-f4bd-ba2b-b43b3467272b@simark.ca> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Status: No, score=-13.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00, KAM_DMARC_STATUS, RCVD_IN_MSPIKE_H3, RCVD_IN_MSPIKE_WL, SPF_HELO_NONE, SPF_PASS, TXREP autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.2 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.2 (2018-09-13) on server2.sourceware.org X-BeenThere: gdb-patches@sourceware.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: Gdb-patches mailing list List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 19 May 2020 18:46:49 -0000 On 19-05-2020 19:22, Simon Marchi wrote: > 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. Ah, good point, agreed. > 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. Yep, sounds good to me. Thanks, - Tom