From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de>
To: linux-os@analogic.com
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
       "Gilbert, John" <JGG@dolby.com>, Kyle Moffett <mrmacman_g4@mac.com>,
       Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>, Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>,
       "Maciej W. Rozycki" <macro@linux-mips.org>
Subject: Re: Illegal use of reserved word in system.h
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Date: Thu, 19 May 2005 17:19:57 +0200
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.61.0505191024110.30237@chaos.analogic.com> (Richard
	B. Johnson's message of "Thu, 19 May 2005 10:36:17 -0400 (EDT)")
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"Richard B. Johnson" <linux-os@analogic.com> writes:

> It's also hard to see what is happening in 'C'. When I execute
> this:
>
> #include <stdio.h>
> #include <stdlib.h>
>
> int main(int cnt, char *argv[], char *env[], char *aux[])
> {
>     printf("Aux 0 = %s\n", aux[0]);
> //    printf("Aux 1 = %s\n", aux[1]);
> }

There is no pointer to the aux table passed to main, you have to skip past
the environment.  Also, the aux table is an array of key/value pairs.

> This shows that ld-linux.so, that got called first, didn't
> preserve the vector.

It does.

Andreas.

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