From: Erik Max Francis <max AT alcyone DOT com>
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Subject: Re: hope iam in the right place
Date: Tue, 03 Nov 1998 13:58:35 -0800
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Eli Zaretskii wrote:

> No, it looks like this:
> 
>         int main (int argc, char **argv);

Nope.  ANSI C 5.1.2.2.1 dictates that the declaration for main must be
either 

    int main(void);

or 

    int main(int argc, char *argv[]);

Note the argument is an array of pointers, not a pointer to a pointer.

> I know, **argv and *argv[] are essentially the same, but the ANSI
> standard explicitly uses the former.

Not sure how pedantic one needs to be on this.  ANSI dictates that an
array argument to a function is _identical_ to a pointer argument of the
same type, so char *argv[] as a function argument really is the same
thing as char **argv.

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