On Monday, 9 August 2021 12:33:52 PDT Charlie Barto via SG16 wrote:
> I think exposing the global could work fine for shared libraries. On linux
> it should be no problem because the runtime shouldn't have to allocate any
> memory or anything (i.e. there's no actual initialization code that needs
> to run for the global). On Windows there could be some dll related problems
> but it still seems implementable to me.

On Windows, the command-line is already available as a global, albeit with a
platform-specific API (GetCommandLineW). This C++ std API could do the
allocation on first use, if necessary.

> Also correction to my comment on rust's env::args mechanism, they actually
> do kill the program upon seeing any invalid arguments, their env::os_args
> mechanism gives you "WTF-8" (on windows) or a byte-string (on unix), and
> won't kill the process.

But they also don't have a legacy to deal with. Not at all our situation here.

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