On most Rust platforms, std::env::args
will work in a function called from a C program. However, this is not the case on Linux. The following platforms are supported:
cfg(all(target_os = "linux", target_env = "gnu"))
: glibc will pass command line arguments to static constructors, which is non-standardcfg(all(target_os = "linux", not(target_env = "gnu")))
: The envp
pointer passed to _start
is stored in the __environ
symbol. As command line arguments precede it in the stack, we can walk the stack backwards from __environ
to find argc
and argv
. This works on all platforms I've tested it on, however it takes linear time with regards to argc.cfg(not(target_os = "linux"))
: std::env::args
is used, which works on most platforms (including Windows and macOS). On unsupported platforms, an empty Vec will be returned.