From d14478ff4164b8324e75a4ac351d84fbc57cc758 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Nick Gasson <nick@nickg.me.uk>
Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2023 09:39:39 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] sim_if/nvc.py: quote words with spaces in printed command
 (#940)

This allows the command to be directly copied and pasted without having
to quote e.g. the JSON in the `-g` argument.
---
 docs/news.d/940.misc.rst | 1 +
 vunit/sim_if/nvc.py      | 2 +-
 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
 create mode 100644 docs/news.d/940.misc.rst

diff --git a/docs/news.d/940.misc.rst b/docs/news.d/940.misc.rst
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..aed570158
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/news.d/940.misc.rst
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+[NVC] Multi-word command line arguments are now quoted in the log.
diff --git a/vunit/sim_if/nvc.py b/vunit/sim_if/nvc.py
index c3391fe05..76edece7b 100644
--- a/vunit/sim_if/nvc.py
+++ b/vunit/sim_if/nvc.py
@@ -275,7 +275,7 @@ def simulate(self, output_path, test_suite_name, config, elaborate_only):
             if wave_file:
                 cmd += [f"--wave={wave_file}"]
 
-        print(" ".join(cmd))
+        print(" ".join([f"'{word}'" if " " in word else word for word in cmd]))
 
         status = True