main() command line arguments of console application

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I want to use command line arguments in a console application. Yet
regardless of what was entered on the command line, argc and argv
contain bogus values. Why?

Setup:

Platform Builder 5.0, target is a CEPC, and yes, the OS does include
the console component.

Embedded VC++ 4.0 with SP4.

Code:

int main (int argc, char *argv[])
{
printf("argc = %d (0x%0X), argv = %s\n",
argc, argc, argv ? argv[0] : "NULL");

getchar();

return 0;
}

Sample output:

argc = 981293930 (0x3A7D5B6A), argv = NULL

Issue: the command line arguments contain bogus values regardless of
what was entered on the command line. That is, regardless of _how
many_ (argc) values I entered, argc is always incorrect and argv is
always NULL.

.

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