Re: [MinGW-dvlpr] argv[0] conversion in MinGW GCC

[Danny S. <dan...@cl...>]

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From: "Ranjit Mathew" <rm...@ho...>
To: <min...@li...>
Sent: Tuesday, 18 February 2003 20:01
Subject: [MinGW-dvlpr] argv[0] conversion in MinGW GCC


> Hi,
>
>     My copy of K&R 2nd Ed. (Section 5.10) says that
> "By convention, argv[0] is the name by which the program
> was invoked...".
>
> This is what I've come to expect from my experience on
> UNIX.
>
> However, I notice that the MinGW GCC expands "argv[0]" to
> the full path to the executable. On further investigation,
> this is due to a mingw-local change -

Can you be more specific?  The only two mingw-host local change about
argv I can recall are
1) swap '/' for '\\'  for the sake of W9x.
2) use _fullname to check if input file == output file.  This is because
of braindead  st_ino in stat.

Danny

 stock GCC behaves
> as expected.


>
> My question is: why is this needed? It certainly changes
> the typical "Usage: ..." lines for a program in a
> somewhat unexpected manner.

Example ?

 I discovered this today
> while debugging the cause of an error (that does not
> occur if mingw-local patches are applied) in GCJ.
>
> Ranjit.
>
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