If I have a file called foo"bar'baz, how what would I put in the place of 
<AWKWARD NAME> for

(lldb) file <AWKWARD NAME>

Right now, I can do:

(lldb) file foo\"bar\'baz
Current executable set to 'foo"bar'baz' (x86_64).

Jim


> On Jan 8, 2015, at 2:31 PM, Zachary Turner <ztur...@google.com> wrote:
> 
> FWIW, Removing backslash handling from this function (essentially ignoring 
> backslashes in command arguments) fixes about 12-15 tests on Windows with no 
> other changes.  I see there's some logic in Args for encoding and decoding 
> escape sequences, but this only happens if a particular command option is 
> set, and that command only only appears to be set for the "prompt" command.  
> I'm not sure if removing the backslash logic from SetCommandString would 
> interfere with this command in any way, but it doesn't seem like it would 
> interfere with any other commands, unless I'm missing something.
> 
> On Thu Jan 08 2015 at 1:43:16 PM Zachary Turner <ztur...@google.com> wrote:
> One thing causing many tests to fail on Windows is the presence of 
> backslashes in argument.  Until now, I've worked around this in many cases by 
> making sure that arguments with backslashes are always quoted.
> 
> But there are some cases where this is not easy to guarantee and now I'm 
> leaning towards (at least on Windows) allowing backslashes in argument 
> strings.  The code in question comes from the function void SetCommandString 
> (const char *command) in the file Args.cpp
> 
> In particular, it implements special handling of whitespace, single quotes, 
> double quotes, and backslashes.  For the case of backslashes it removes them 
> from the string.
> 
> What would be the implications of removing backslash handling from this 
> function for all platforms?  I would prefer to keep platform specific code 
> out of generic code, but I think this needs to be changed on Windows.
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