diff --git a/modules/compiler_vm/cc b/modules/compiler_vm/cc
index a86a63ed..8b0e383b 100755
--- a/modules/compiler_vm/cc
+++ b/modules/compiler_vm/cc
@@ -3,4 +3,4 @@
 CC_LOCAL=1
 export CC_LOCAL
 ulimit -c 50000
-./compiler_vm_client.pl compiler $*
+./compiler_vm_client.pl compiler "$@"