I also love argv[--argc]. Evil genius. And it's fully legit (from the draft C standard, 5.1.2.2.1, § 2 "Program startup"): > The parameters argc and argv and

I also love argv[--argc]. Evil genius. And it's fully legit (from the draft C standard, 5.1.2.2.1, § 2 "Program startup"): > The parameters argc and argv and the strings pointed to by the argv array shall be modifiable by the program, and retain their last-stored values between program startup and program termination. https://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/WG14/www/docs/n1256.pdf https://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/WG14/www/docs/n1256.pdf [pdf]