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          <th>Bug ID</th>
          <td><a class="bz_bug_link 
          bz_status_NEW "
   title="NEW --- - clang api gets confused by positional arguments"
   href="https://llvm.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=29054">29054</a>
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          <th>Summary</th>
          <td>clang api gets confused by positional arguments
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          <th>Product</th>
          <td>clang
          </td>
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        <tr>
          <th>Version</th>
          <td>3.9
          </td>
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        <tr>
          <th>Hardware</th>
          <td>PC
          </td>
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          <th>OS</th>
          <td>Linux
          </td>
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          <th>Status</th>
          <td>NEW
          </td>
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          <th>Severity</th>
          <td>normal
          </td>
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        <tr>
          <th>Priority</th>
          <td>P
          </td>
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          <th>Component</th>
          <td>Driver
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          <th>Assignee</th>
          <td>unassignedclangbugs@nondot.org
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          <th>Reporter</th>
          <td>moritz.kiefer@purelyfunctional.org
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        <tr>
          <th>CC</th>
          <td>llvm-bugs@lists.llvm.org
          </td>
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          <th>Classification</th>
          <td>Unclassified
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        <pre>Steps to reproduce:

Download and compile
<a href="https://gist.github.com/cocreature/5b511b3de6f2e2e2e08e48ec3ce25dcc">https://gist.github.com/cocreature/5b511b3de6f2e2e2e08e48ec3ce25dcc</a> and try to
run it with a single argument. That file identical to the clang-interpreter
example with the exception of one (unused) positional argument added via
llvm::cl (and some debug output).

Then try to run it and pass an arbitrary C file as the single argument.

Expected:
It compiles to an LLVM module and then tries to interpret it.

Actual behavior:
The call to CompilerInstance::ExecuteAction fails with the following error
message:

clang: Not enough positional command line arguments specified!
Must specify at least 1 positional arguments: See: clang -help

Comments:
Adding an unused argument is obviously not useful but I am encountering this
bug in a tool of mine where we actually use positional arguments so just
removing them is not an option (or would require us to switch to a different
cli arg parser). This is new behavior in 3.9 (3.8 works fine). I assume it is
not intended, but if so, is there a way around this?</pre>
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