Re: [AD] END_OF_MAIN removal patch for msvc

[Thomas Fjellstrom <tfjellstrom@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On November 17, 2008, Evert Glebbeek wrote:
> On 17 Nov 2008, at 08:35, Peter Wang wrote:
> > What functions in 4.9 still need to magically know the values of argc,
> > argv?  If there are any, they should be designed out.
>
> As far as I know, the only reason to grab argv[] was to get the
> executable path. Now that we have a better filesystem implementation,
> I don't think this is very useful/needed anymore - shouldn't be anyway.

Not to mention the reason for it previously was to find resources that live in 
the same dir as the exe, and that tends to only be common (and legal) in Win9x 
and maybe XP, but there are other ways to get the "right" dirs for resources 
and stuff.

> Evert
>
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