[m-rev.] for review: gdbrun bug fix

[Fergus Henderson]

On 27-Apr-2001, Zoltan Somogyi <zs at cs.mu.OZ.AU> wrote:
> On 26-Apr-2001, Fergus Henderson <fjh at cs.mu.OZ.AU> wrote:
> > The quoting is still not 100% correct, though.
> > To do it properly you'd have to also quote stuff containing "#"
> > or ">" and escape stuff containing "$" or "\" and maybe more.
> 
> However, there is no need to quote stuff that lmc never passes to gdb.

Well, gdbrun might be used for programs other than lmc.
Also, lmc can pass arbitrary strings to gdb,
e.g. lmc --cflags '-DVERSION="Release 10 <$Revision 1.1$>"'
But in practice that is unlikely.

> Here is the version I intend to commit

Fine.

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