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From: xtifr@netcom.com (Chris Waters)
Subject: Re: Legal Prototypes for the "main" Function
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In <264uee$kpl@hydrogen.smallworld.co.uk> arthur@Smallworld.co.uk (Arthur Chance) writes:

>In article <263gn7$2ui@usenet.pa.dec.com>, diamond@jit.dec.com (Norman Diamond)
>writes:
>> It might be sensible to make the argc parameter size_t instead of int, but
>> I think it will be a long (:-) time before we see operating systems that
>> permit passing more than 32767 strings in a command line, or invokers who
>> wish to pass such.

>egrep pattern `find /var/spool/news -type f -print`

>We have ~200K news articles online, so argc would be _way_ above 32767.
>This is 10% joke, 90% serious - I actually found myself trying to do this
>a few days ago. Of course, it didn't work. :-}

Hmm, on any *reasonable* system, an int will hold approx +-2 billion, 
so this shouldn't be an issue on most machines that *have* a
/var/spool/news directory.  I don't see what relevance 32767 has to
ints!  Except, perhaps on messy-DOG systems.  :-)

(OTOH, with the command given above, the size of argv is more likely to
be a problem than the size of argc!)
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