Re: addr2line and the name of the executable

["Ranjit Mathew" <rmathew at hotmail dot com>]

>  > So the property "gnu.gcj.progname" would not really be "the name by
>  > which the program was invoked" - isn't that (sort of) wrong?
>
> The comment only says "similar to".  It depends on what you want the
> information for.  If you really want the file, that's just what you
> need.

Most of the uses for argv[0] that I've seen are typically like:
   ...
   if( argc < 2)
   {
       printf( "Usage: %s <whatever>\n", argv[0]);
       exit( 1);
   }

In "normal" Java programs, this is replaced by
"Usage: java FooBar <whatever>" since this used to be the only
way to invoke a Java program. However, with a natively
compiled Java program, one cannot assume this and needs
access to something like argv[0] - this was the whole
point of my asking for, what became the "gnu.gcj.progname"
property. See this thread for the background:

   http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/java/2002-10/threads.html#00149

It is in this light that I consider the current
implementation to be in error.

If we need the actual path to the executable, this is best
served by something like _Jv_platform_getexecutable( ) as
Mohan's patch suggests.

Ranjit.

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