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Re: [PATCH] add GCC_OPTIONS

On Jun 27, 2003, Geoff Keating <geoffk@geoffk.org> wrote:

> #!/bin/sh
> exec /usr/bin/gcc -g $*

And this will give him the very quoting hell he mentioned before.  The
right way to spell $* in this case is ${1+"$@"}.  Most systems will do
with "$@", but some dumb shells will expand "$@" to a single,
zero-length argument, instead of no arguments, if no arguments are
given in the command line.

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