Re: [AD] [4.3] get_executable_name

[Thomas Fjellstrom <tfjellstrom@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tuesday 29 August 2006 9:34 pm, Peter Wang wrote:
> On 2006-08-29, Thomas Fjellstrom <tfjellstrom@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Tuesday 29 August 2006 9:29 pm, Peter Wang wrote:
> > > On 2006-08-29, Thomas Fjellstrom <tfjellstrom@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > > On Tuesday 29 August 2006 9:23 pm, Peter Wang wrote:
> > > > > On 2006-08-29, Thomas Fjellstrom <tfjellstrom@xxxxxxxxxx> 
wrote:
> > > > > > Just why does that function go out of its way to be as
> > > > > > complicated as possible?
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Are there really unix systems where you cant use getcwd (relative
> > > > > > paths in argv) and argv[0] ?
> > > > >
> > > > > (1) Where do you get argv[0] from?  We used to use END_OF_MAIN().
> > > >
> > > > Allegro aught to be passed argv and argc. explicitly.
> > >
> > > We couldn't change the interface.
> >
> > Ok. Can we now?
>
> I wouldn't mind.  The compatibility layer might have to change the
> interface of get_executable_name() so that it can return failure though.

I think allegro should provide some replacements, so it can remove allegro 
args, and pass on the rest to the app.. al_argv/argc or something. Qt3 does 
something similar (app.argv()/argc()).

> Peter
>
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