Re: EMX runtime and command line arguments

Andreas wrote:

> When an emx program is called, the command line arguments, i.e.,
> the argv argument of main() is modified before main() is entered.

No, argv is built from the single-string command line passed to the program.

> Double quotes ('"') are removed and backslashes interpreted under
> certain circumstances (e.g., '\"' is replaced by '"').

...and the line is split into multiple arguments.

> What exactly does the runtime do, and under which circumstances,

Use the source, Luke!

See parse_arg() in emx/src/os2/init.c.

> and is it possible to access the original argv from within the
> program?

See initalize1() in init.c.

Eberhard