Date: Thu, 1 Jul 1999 19:32:22 +0200
From: Xavier Leroy <Xavier.Leroy@inria.fr>
To: Markus Mottl <mottl@miss.wu-wien.ac.at>, OCAML <caml-list@inria.fr>
Subject: Re: Sys.argv with interpreter and compiler
In-Reply-To: <199906271102.NAA22537@miss.wu-wien.ac.at>; from Markus Mottl on Sun, Jun 27, 1999 at 01:02:45PM +0100
> E.g. I want to emit an error message that includes the name of the
> executable or, if the interpreter is used, the name of the script.
>
> Wouldn't it be logically more consistent to pass the truncated array
> of arguments to the script under the interpreter so that the program
> always gets its name on index 0 - no matter whether it is compiled
> or interpreted?
Yes, it would be more consistent, but that's exactly what it does
currently. At least, that's what a quick test under Linux shows.
> - With the current version it gets the name of the
> interpreter on this position.
That's surprising. On which operating system do you see this
behavior? The treatment of argv[0] in C w.r.t. #! scripts differs
between various versions of Unix, but we tried to compensate for this
in the OCaml bytecode interpreter.
- Xavier Leroy
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