Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3 2/2] semihosting: add --semihosting-config arg sub-argument

[Peter Maydell]

On 21 May 2015 at 16:24, Liviu Ionescu <address@hidden> wrote:
>
>> On 21 May 2015, at 18:06, Peter Maydell <address@hidden> wrote:
>>
>> ...
>> That's their choice... It is still an array of substrings,
>> but if the user only provides one string then we have an
>> array of length 1.
>
> this was my initial point, as long as you offer the choice,
> you no longer have consistent usage between ARM and MIPS,
> the ARM users will prefer the array of length 1.

There's no way to not offer the choice. In your syntax
this would be
 --semihosting-cmdline "foo bar baz"

>> ...
>> Adding quotes and apostrophes seems wrong to me,
>> because it's making assumptions about the guest's
>> handling of the semihosting string.
>
> yes, it is making the assumption that the guest code is able to
> process args with embedded spaces. once this accepted, properly
> parsing the quotes and apostrophes is required anyway

Required by who? It's not in the semihosting API. You
could perfectly well have a guest which required arguments
with spaces to be quoted via <> characters, or which
just treated the whole string as a single element, or
which didn't have any quoting support...

-- PMM