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

[Peter Maydell]

On 21 May 2015 at 16:47, Liviu Ionescu <address@hidden> wrote:
>
>> On 21 May 2015, at 18:29, Peter Maydell <address@hidden> wrote:
>>
>>
>> There's no way to not offer the choice. In your syntax
>> this would be
>> --semihosting-cmdline "foo bar baz"
>
> not exactly. in my implementation this would arrive in the guest
> code as argc=1, argv[0]="foo bar baz", which will be understood as
> a weird program name.

Well, it's the same as --semihosting-options,arg="foo bar baz".
That will arrive in the guest code as "foo bar baz", which
the guest code may or may not choose to interpret as a
program name foo and two arguments.

At the semihosting API level all the guest sees is a single
string and its length.

-- PMM