On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 3:17 PM, Thomas Hruska <[email protected]> wrote:
> I was thinking
> some weird mangled sentence involving the archaic 'int argc'.  Which
> would have provided for interesting discussion about why 'argc' exists
> in the first place since 'argv' is "generally sufficient"

Probably a redundant convenience, or, less redundant, allows you know
beforehand how large argv is, or to parse argv backwards without
having to go forwards through it first (though I cannot come up with a
non-contrived example where this would be useful.)

> (i.e. the
> array is NULL terminated on every platform I've ever used).

As indeed it /must/ be on a hosted implementation.

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PJH

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