* NEWS: Update for --args.

* infcmd.c (construct_inferior_arguments): Moved from ...
	* fork-child.c: ... here.

gdb/infcmd.c

@@ -256,6 +256,77 @@ notice_args_read (struct cmd_list_element *c)
   get_inferior_args ();
 }
 
+
+/* Compute command-line string given argument vector.  This does the
+   same shell processing as fork_inferior.  */
+/* ARGSUSED */
+char *
+construct_inferior_arguments (struct gdbarch *gdbarch, int argc, char **argv)
+{
+  char *result;
+
+  if (STARTUP_WITH_SHELL)
+    {
+      /* This holds all the characters considered special to the
+	 typical Unix shells.  We include `^' because the SunOS
+	 /bin/sh treats it as a synonym for `|'.  */
+      char *special = "\"!#$&*()\\|[]{}<>?'\"`~^; \t\n";
+      int i;
+      int length = 0;
+      char *out, *cp;
+
+      /* We over-compute the size.  It shouldn't matter.  */
+      for (i = 0; i < argc; ++i)
+	length += 2 * strlen (argv[i]) + 1;
+
+      result = (char *) xmalloc (length);
+      out = result;
+
+      for (i = 0; i < argc; ++i)
+	{
+	  if (i > 0)
+	    *out++ = ' ';
+
+	  for (cp = argv[i]; *cp; ++cp)
+	    {
+	      if (strchr (special, *cp) != NULL)
+		*out++ = '\\';
+	      *out++ = *cp;
+	    }
+	}
+      *out = '\0';
+    }
+  else
+    {
+      /* In this case we can't handle arguments that contain spaces,
+	 tabs, or newlines -- see breakup_args().  */
+      int i;
+      int length = 0;
+
+      for (i = 0; i < argc; ++i)
+	{
+	  char *cp = strchr (argv[i], ' ');
+	  if (cp == NULL)
+	    cp = strchr (argv[i], '\t');
+	  if (cp == NULL)
+	    cp = strchr (argv[i], '\n');
+	  if (cp != NULL)
+	    error ("can't handle command-line argument containing whitespace");
+	  length += strlen (argv[i]) + 1;
+	}
+
+      result = (char *) xmalloc (length);
+      result[0] = '\0';
+      for (i = 0; i < argc; ++i)
+	{
+	  if (i > 0)
+	    strcat (result, " ");
+	  strcat (result, argv[i]);
+	}
+    }
+
+  return result;
+}
 
 
 /* This function detects whether or not a '&' character (indicating