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From: rargyle@wsccs.UUCP (Bob Argyle)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Megamax v1.1 Bug?
Summary: first argument is program name
Keywords: argc,argv
Message-ID: <544@wsccs.UUCP>
Date: 21 May 88 00:37:10 GMT
References: <May.12.20.53.04.1988.25733@topaz.rutgers.edu>
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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.  
...
> 			Phil Paone
...
> "Admiral...There be whales here"

There is apparently one unusable argument passed, the name of the
program.  argv[1] _always_ is the first argument after the program name.
So argc = 2 so one can   for (i=1;i<argc;i++) printf("%s\n",argv[i]);
instead of kluging  for (i=1;i<argc+1;i++)...  to get the list. 
                                   ^^
If it ain't broke ... when all else fails ...  
				Bob @ wsccs