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From: root@bu-cs.UUCP (Barry Shein)
Newsgroups: net.lang.c,net.unix-wizards
Subject: Re: Re: how has C bitten you?
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Date: Sat, 24-Aug-85 02:58:57 EDT
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Not really a bite, but I remember when I was first learning C
I was quite bewildered by the fact that you couldn't really
declare your own 'argv', that is, you couldn't declare an
array of pointers to fixed length buffers except perhaps by:

char *myargv[] = {
	"\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0",
	"\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0",

	etc

I mean, argv seemed kinda holy to me, disturbing.

	-Barry Shein, Boston University

P.S. I know argv is var length, but that would be even harder to declare!