Re: add non-option reordering to in-tree getopt_long

On Tue, Jun 13, 2023 at 04:02:01PM +0900, Kyotaro Horiguchi wrote:
> Hmm. from the initial mail, I got the impression that AIX and Windows
> allow this, so I thought that we can do that for them. While there
> could be other platforms that allow it, perhaps we don't need to go as
> far as extending this until we come across another platform that does.

Windows seems to allow rearranging argv, based upon cfbot's results. I do
not know about AIX. In any case, C99 explicitly mentions that argv should
be modifiable.

>> > As far as I can see, getopt_long on Rocky9 does *not* rearrange argv
>> > until it reaches the end of the array. But it won't matter much.
>>
>> Do you mean that it rearranges argv once all the options have been
>> returned, or that it doesn't rearrange argv at all?
>
> I meant the former. argv remains unaltered until getopt_long returns
> -1. Once it does, non-optional arguments are being collected at the
> end of argv. (But in my opinion, that behavior isn't very significant
> in this context..)

Got it.

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