On Tue, 29 Jun 1999, Greg Lehey wrote: > > This is of course correct except for the `undocumented' claim. The > > `envp' has been documented as the third argument to main() since the > > Pharaons (well, not quite ;). Apparently AT&T UNIX even has a > > (documented) five-parameter main(). > > This is news to me. Can you point to the documentation? > > > Besides, the `envp' argument is a recommended extension in ISO/ANSI > > C, so you can hardly say that it's undocumented. > > Hmm. I don't have the Standard here, but I've dug around and found a > couple of references to the third parameter, an "optional extension". > I think the real problem is that K&R didn't describe it: it was > introduced in the Seventh Edition, which came after K&R.
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