optind

[Ryan Gammon]

Hello folks,

I'm having a problem with getopt. In particular, I'm finding that optind 
doesn't seem to be containing the correct value. I think that 
something's getting confused about where optind is supposed to be.

I'm running debian/unstable with glibc-2.3.2.

The following code prints:
optind weirdness 0x80a2bf0 0x405d730c

The code:
   int *_optind;
   void *handle = dlopen("/lib/libc.so.6", RTLD_NOW);
   if(handle)
   {
       _optind = (int *)dlsym(handle, "optind");
       if(_optind != &optind)
       {
           printf("optind weirdness %p %p\n", &optind, _optind);
       }
   }

fwiw, gdb thinks optind is at 0x405d730c

Where is optind supposed to be? Any ideas about what might be broken?

Thanks!

Ryan