The C standard says following about main function in C.
The function called at program startup is named main. The
implementation declares no prototype for this function. It shall
be defined with a return type of int and with no parameters:
int main(void) { /* ... */ }
or with two parameters (referred to here as argc and argv, though
any names may be used, as they are local to the function in which
they are declared):
int main(int argc, char *argv[]) { /* ... */ }
or equivalent;10) or in some other implementation-defined manner.
But most of the compilers also support a third declaration of main that accepts third argument. The third argument stores all environment variables.
#include <stdio.h>
// Most of the C compilers support a third parameter to main which
// store all environment variables
int main(int argc, char *argv[], char * envp[])
{
int i;
for (i = 0; envp[i] != NULL; i++)
printf("\n%s", envp[i]);
getchar();
return 0;
}
Output:
ALLUSERSPROFILE=C:\ProgramData CommonProgramFiles=C:\Program Files\Common Files HOMEDRIVE=C: NUMBER_OF_PROCESSORS=2 OS=Windows_NT PATHEXT=.COM;.EXE;.BAT;.CMD;.VBS;.VBE;.JS;.JSE;.WSF;.WSH;.MSC PROCESSOR_ARCHITECTURE=x86 PROCESSOR_IDENTIFIER=x86 Family 6 Model 42 Stepping 7, GenuineIntel PROCESSOR_LEVEL=6 PROCESSOR_REVISION=2a07 ProgramData=C:\ProgramData ProgramFiles=C:\Program Files PUBLIC=C:\Users\Public SESSIONNAME=Console SystemDrive=C: SystemRoot=C:\Windows WATCOM=C:\watcom windir=C:\Windows