Re: [AD] END_OF_MAIN removal patch for msvc

[Peter Wang <novalazy@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On 2008-11-17, Thomas Fjellstrom <tfjellstrom@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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.

I guess it might still be useful for the example programs to find their
data.  We could add a function to be called after al_init():

    void al_set_argcv(int argc, const char *argv[]);

Peter