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Yuri Shtil <yshtil@cisco.com> writes:

> I am trying to debug a perl program that needs to see a double dash
> (--)
> on the command line.

There is a function that massages command line args before passing
them to perldb.  M-x apropos RET perl.*massag RET should find the
function.  Use M-x find-function RET <name of function> RET to find
the source code to see how it does bad things.

Kai