[cap-talk] object-oriented-security.org

[John R. Strohm]

"Dirk Pranke" <dpranke at chromium.org> said, on:Friday, March 05, 2010 4:56 PM:
> The only alternative to this that I know of would be something that
> replaced main(argc, argv) with main(argc, argv, env) where env holds
> all the references, and then env gets passed to every function and
> every constructor that might need it.

You just tickled a memory.

MS-DOS and Windows C/C++ programming allows main() to be defined with zero, two, 
or three arguments.  The third argument receives a pointer to the environment 
table.

See http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/k104fy6h.aspx for more details.