On Wed, 2013-08-07 at 19:15 +0200, Basile Starynkevitch wrote: > Hello All, > > It should be perfectly possible for a plugin argument to contain the > equal sign. > > For plugin with scripting or DSL behavior (like MELT, see > http://gcc-melt.org/ for more) it is useful to pass some commands > or expressions to the plugin. For MELT we might want to run > > gcc -fplugin=melt -fplugin-arg-melt-mode=eval \ > -fplugin-arg-melt-arg='(== 1 2)' empty.c > > for plugins accepting some shell command to be run by system or popen, > passing -fplugin-arg-foo-command='env FOO=bar doit arg' would be > perfectly ok, but is not.
Thanks - fwiw I've also run into this issue a few times with the python plugin. (I'm not a reviewer)
