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25.1; gdb package interpreter problem

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From: Noam Postavsky <npostavs <at> gmail.com>
To: Sergio Durigan Junior <sergiodj <at> sergiodj.net>
Cc: "yates <at> ieee.org" <yates <at> ieee.org>, Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>, 25488 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Randy Yates <randyy <at> garnerundergroundinc.com>, Stefan Kangas <stefan <at> marxist.se>
Subject: bug#25488: 25.1; gdb package interpreter problem
Date: Mon, 23 Sep 2019 09:03:24 -0400

> Sergio Durigan Junior <sergiodj <at> sergiodj.net> writes:
>
>> Yeah, I had the chance to look into it, and even though I don't remember
>> the details now, I have a patch here that seems to work for me.  I'm
>> attaching it to this message; can you check if it fixes the problem for
>> you, please?
>>
>> It seems strange that the extra whitespace was added by mistake there.
>> I'm a bit afraid that there is a case which I haven't envisioned and
>> which requires that whitespace, but I couldn't come up with a testing
>> scenario that triggers the error.  I tested this by debugging a binary
>> with and without arguments (i.e., "/bin/true" and "/bin/true --help"),
>> and both worked fine.

> Thanks for reporting back and providing a patch.  Could someone more
> familiar with this code please help test and review this?

I'm not very familiar with the code, but looking around, it seems quite
likely that the extra " " was just due to a copy paste error.

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