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From: tainter@ihlpg.ATT.COM (Tainter)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Megamax v1.1 Bug?
Keywords: argc,argv
Message-ID: <5365@ihlpg.ATT.COM>
Date: 16 May 88 23:25:21 GMT
References: <May.12.20.53.04.1988.25733@topaz.rutgers.edu>
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories - Naperville, Illinois
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In article <May.12.20.53.04.1988.25733@topaz.rutgers.edu>, paone@topaz.rutgers.edu (Phil Paone) writes:
> 
> I have been playing with my v1.1 of Megamax C and found what appears
> to be a bug in c lib.  argc is being initialized to 1 instead of 0 so
> even when no arguments are passed, argc is 1.  I went into the library
> and patched this up, but the argv also appears to be off.  Is this the
> case, or is this supposed to be different from UNIX's method of
> handling them (Yes, I know argv[0] does not work)?
>-- Phil Paone

Phil, you are confused.  This is UNIX's method.  Unix never gives you an
argc < 1, since you always have the name of your program in argv[0].
On the ST they stick some fake name in argv[0].  (I patched mine so it
always says "stupidity".

Go back and unpatch your library!

You know, I really hate the fact that argv[0] isn't initialized intelligently!
If I get annoyed enough I'll come up with some not quite portable way of
getting at the program name, and patch it into my prolog code.

--j.a.tainter