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From: swillden@wsccs.UUCP (Shawn Willden)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: How big is the argv[] array?
Summary: argv has argc elements
Message-ID: <708@wsccs.UUCP>
Date: 7 Oct 88 01:00:57 GMT
References: <1239500004@osiris.cso.uiuc.edu>
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In article <1239500004@osiris.cso.uiuc.edu>, hood@osiris.cso.uiuc.edu writes:
> 
> How big is the argv[] array?  Or to ask it another way, how safe is it to
> go past the argc-1'th element in the argv[] array?
> 
> Isn't it true that the array of pointers (or pointer to pointers, depending
> on your point of view) "argv" actually contains argc+1 elements, and not
> argc elements?

No.  At least not in any C I know of.  Argv has argc elements.
It is possible that some C compilers may give argv argc+1 elements but I
know that Borland's Turbo C for PC's and VAX C do not.

swillden@wsccs