On Thu, 19 Jul 2018, Marcel Raad wrote:

> The strange thing is: when running "./runtests.pl -a -p -v -g" in the tests
> directory, with -g for gdb, the argument is passed correctly. Can anyone
> imagine where this discrepancy might come from?

I'd say because of this runtests.pl line:

   https://github.com/curl/curl/blob/db2ac90eaf45f995608cf97bb1b2f811a143477e/tests/runtests.pl#L4070

The arguments to curl are set in a gdb script and not read using the regular
shell command line parser. gdb executes that script when it starts.

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