* NEWS: Update for --args.

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

1 files changed, 0 insertions, 71 deletions

diff --git a/gdb/fork-child.c b/gdb/fork-child.c
index 24cd00a5b1d..21e508939b6 100644
--- a/gdb/fork-child.c
+++ b/gdb/fork-child.c
@@ -568,74 +568,3 @@ startup_inferior (int ntraps)
 #endif /* STARTUP_INFERIOR */
   stop_soon_quietly = 0;
 }
-
-/* 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;
-}