_argc & _argv

[Chris Faylor]

On Tue, Aug 01, 2000 at 06:21:36PM -0800, Paul Garceau wrote:
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>
>On 1 Aug 2000, at 20:46, the Illustrious Chris Faylor wrote:
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>> On Tue, Aug 01, 2000 at 05:39:51PM -0800, Paul Garceau wrote: >Hi
>> folks, > >   From what I can tell, the values noted in the
>> subject line >are not defined as part of standard non-mingw32
>> headers. > >   My question is, how does Cygwin deal with argc,
>> argv  without >using mingw32 headers?
>> 
>> Like any UNIX program (or Windows program for that matter).  They
>> are arguments to main:
>
>	Yes, I know that...I also realize that these sound like foolish 
>questions that only a newbie would ask...when working with three 
>or four different compiler ports at any given time, they tend to 
>get mixed up...
>
>> 
>> int main (int argc, char **argv);
>
>	More specifically, is argc, argv defined with or w/o leading 
>underscores for Cygwin when it comes to defining them for a 
>main() routine?
>
>   csMain (argc, argv); (Cygwin?)
>   csMain (__argc, __argv); (Mingw/MS)
>   csMain(_argc,_argv); (Borland)

I don't know what "csMain" is but it doesn't matter what you name
an argument.  You can call them "fred" and "ethel" of you want.
Or, "__fred" and "__ethel", if you prefer.

cgf

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