[Mingw-users] _argv and _argc

[Appaiah K. <ana...@ya...>]

Hello! I am a novice programmer, just programming for fun. I have been 
using MinGW for a long time, and while browsing the headers, I found 
this cool feature in stdlib.h. Two variables, _argv and _argc are 
defined there, which allow non-console, ie. Windows apps to use the dos 
"main ()" style argument handling. I think it's much better than using 
the LPSTR variable in WinMain.

This thing also lets me get the module file name, by accessing _argv 
[0]. But there's one gotcha, about which I would like to ask:

I have made an application in, say D:\CC++\, by name abc.exe, which 
prints the value of _argv [ 0 ]. Now, if I GCC 2.95.2 (CRTDLL), to 
compile the application, then the printout is:
D:\CC__~1\abc.exe

but if I use GCC 2.95.2-1 (MSVCRT), the output is:
D:\CC++\abc.exe

Does this show that the problem is in CRTDLL.DLL (outdation, maybe?), or 
am I doing something wrong?

Thank you.

A.Kumar