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

[Ed M. <em...@fr...>]

On Tue, 30 Jul 2019 at 04:09, Joseph Koshy via Elftoolchain-developers
<elf...@li...> wrote:
>
> 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.

The author of that example may have chosen to use optind to
demonstrate its existence and use though. It doesn't much matter, but
I find the "discard processed options" form somewhat more clear.