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Subject: Re: A question in Olithink vs Gerbil?

Author: Uri Blass

Date: 03:39:35 06/04/04

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On June 04, 2004 at 05:26:08, Daniel Clausen wrote:

>On June 04, 2004 at 05:00:15, Gopikrishna wrote:
>
>>On June 04, 2004 at 04:14:52, Dann Corbit wrote:
>>
>>>On June 04, 2004 at 03:57:32, Gopikrishna wrote:
>>>
>>>>Also there is a main() function in winboard.c But from where are those
>>>>parameters argc and argv[] passed to this main? Thanks.
>>>
>>>From the OS.
>>
>>So what are the values of these arguments that are passed from OS?
>
>Since you don't know that, have a hard time finding xboard/winboard-related code
>in sourcefiles and can't find the place where an engine defines its board
>structure, maybe you should get a decent book about C? There are plenty.
>
>Sargon

I also do not know it but it did not prevent me to write stronger engine than
gerbil so I guess that it is not important if your target is to write a strong
engine that supports the winboard commands.

I have only one main function and it gets no parameters from the operating
system.
I do not see why it needs to get then.

Uri



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