gdb: Allow quoting around string options in the gdb::option framework

[deliverable/binutils-gdb.git] / gdb / gdbsupport / common-utils.h

diff --git a/gdb/gdbsupport/common-utils.h b/gdb/gdbsupport/common-utils.h
index 52bf3437b1cd443f0901d2bc34a8eb5d0fbd710f..a5312cb0c4918b08f8f1702ce4e45afdeef56300 100644 (file)
--- a/gdb/gdbsupport/common-utils.h
+++ b/gdb/gdbsupport/common-utils.h
@@ -94,6 +94,16 @@ void string_vappendf (std::string &dest, const char* fmt, va_list args)
 
 char *savestring (const char *ptr, size_t len);
 
+/* Extract the next word from ARG.  The next word is defined as either,
+   everything up to the next space, or, if the next word starts with either
+   a single or double quote, then everything up to the closing quote.  The
+   enclosing quotes are not returned in the result string.  The pointer in
+   ARG is updated to point to the first character after the end of the
+   word, or, for quoted words, the first character after the closing
+   quote.  */
+
+std::string extract_string_maybe_quoted (const char **arg);
+
 /* The strerror() function can return NULL for errno values that are
    out of range.  Provide a "safe" version that always returns a
    printable string.  */