On Tue, Jun 13, 2023 at 04:02:01PM +0900, Kyotaro Horiguchi wrote: > Hmm. from the initial mail, I got the impression that AIX and Windows > allow this, so I thought that we can do that for them. While there > could be other platforms that allow it, perhaps we don't need to go as > far as extending this until we come across another platform that does.
Windows seems to allow rearranging argv, based upon cfbot's results. I do not know about AIX. In any case, C99 explicitly mentions that argv should be modifiable. >> > As far as I can see, getopt_long on Rocky9 does *not* rearrange argv >> > until it reaches the end of the array. But it won't matter much. >> >> Do you mean that it rearranges argv once all the options have been >> returned, or that it doesn't rearrange argv at all? > > I meant the former. argv remains unaltered until getopt_long returns > -1. Once it does, non-optional arguments are being collected at the > end of argv. (But in my opinion, that behavior isn't very significant > in this context..) Got it. -- Nathan Bossart Amazon Web Services: https://aws.amazon.com
