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From: Giacomo Tesio <giacomo@tesio.it>
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Out of curiosity, why the startboot function in port/initcode.c is `void
startboot(char *argv0, char **argv)` given the argv0 is ignored?

I see that this simplify various main() in init9.s but I wonder why not
simply use `void startboot(char **argv)`


Giacomo

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<div dir=3D"ltr"><div>Out of curiosity, why the startboot function in port/=
initcode.c is `void startboot(char *argv0, char **argv)` given the argv0 is=
 ignored?<br><br></div><div>I see that this simplify various main() in init=
9.s but I wonder why not simply use `void startboot(char **argv)`<br></div>=
<div><br></div><div><br></div>Giacomo<br></div>

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