Re: [Elftoolchain-developers] [PATCH] elfcopy: Stop using optind.

[Joseph K. <jk...@us...>]

Mark,

On Fri, Jul 26, 2019 at 9:36 PM Mark Johnston <ma...@fr...> wrote:
>
> This marginally simplifies the code.  Writing argc--; argv++; after the
> option parsing loop is a common idiom anyway.

The option handling code in elfcopy(1) seems
patterned after the getopt(3) usage example in
the POSIX standard:

https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/getopt.html.

I'm curious -- would there be a drawback to
using 'optind' to index the argv[] array?

Regards,
Joseph Koshy