From: bd733 AT rgfn DOT epcc DOT edu (Jason M. Daniels)
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Subject: Re: char **argv vs. char *argv[]
Date: 10 Jun 1997 16:48:40 GMT
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Hans Bezemer (hbezemer AT vsngroep DOT nl) wrote:
> Is it also true that argv[argc] == NULL
> with all compilers?

According to the ANSI\ISO standard, you may always access one element 
past the end of an array. Since argc is always one bigger than the 
highest element of argv, argv[argc] will indeed always work.

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