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From: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
Date: Tue, 21 Apr 2015 17:23:37 +0100
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Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH] vl.c: add -semihosting-config "arg"
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To: Liviu Ionescu <ilg@livius.net>
Cc: "christopher.covington@linaro.org" <christopher.covington@linaro.org>, Leon Alrae <leon.alrae@imgtec.com>, Matthew Fortune <Matthew.Fortune@imgtec.com>, "qemu-devel@nongnu.org" <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>

On 21 April 2015 at 17:21, Liviu Ionescu <ilg@livius.net> wrote:
>
>> On 21 Apr 2015, at 18:55, Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org> wrote:
>>
>> On 21 April 2015 at 16:14, Liviu Ionescu <ilg@livius.net> wrote:
>>> if you insist on the arg= solution, could you be so kind and
>>> provide a bash script wrapper that passes all arguments ($@)
>>> using your syntax?
>>
>>
>> ... bashisms ... pure POSIX shell
>
> do these scripts properly handle args containing spaces or embedded apostrophes/quotes?

Yes. Also arguments containing newlines. I tested using a trivial
C program which prints out what it received:
#include <stdio.h>

int main(int argc, char **argv) {
    int i;

    for (i = 0; i < argc; i++) {
         printf("arg %d: >>>%s<<<\n", i, argv[i]);
    }
    return 0;
}

-- PMM