How to pass arguments to my application that include the - symbol on gdb?

Question

I need to pass some arguments to my application,that include the - symbol. The problem is if I pass gdb a.out -foo baa, the gdb understand that the arguments are for it, and not to my application. How to fix this?

Answer 1

1. gdb -q a.out
   inside gdb:
2. run -foo baa
   
   Tip: -q option for gdb suppresses the introductory copyright messages.