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From: karl@haddock.ima.isc.com (Karl Heuer)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: programming challenge (silly)
Message-ID: <12145@haddock.ima.isc.com>
Date: 23 Mar 89 18:07:30 GMT
References: <37433@think.UUCP> <4412@ingr.com> <LIMES.89Mar15203439@ouroborous.wseng.sun.com> <1859@se-sd.sandiego.ncr.com>
Reply-To: karl@haddock.ima.isc.com (Karl Heuer)
Organization: Interactive Systems, Boston
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In article <1859@se-sd.sandiego.ncr.com> rns@se-sd.sandiego.NCR.COM (Rick Schubert(AEP)) writes:
>A value [for argc] of 0 indicates that the program name is not available.
>This is allowed by the soon-to-be ANSI Standard.

Actually, the sentence that includes "program name is not available" in the
pANS refers to the case argc > 0 && argv[0] == "".  It's true that the pANS
also allows argc == 0 && argv[0] == NULL, but it doesn't say what this is
intended to mean.

Karl W. Z. Heuer (ima!haddock!karl or karl@haddock.isc.com), The Walking Lint