Re: use of program_name

[Paul Eggert]

Dave Love <address@hidden> writes:

> Gnulib routines call `error', and on a non-glibc system that's likely
> to use an uninitialized `program_name' since the variable is
> initialized in progname.c, and that's not required.

Under the current approach, it's the caller's responsibility to arrange
for a program_name variable that works, either by using the progname
module, or by rolling their own program_name variable.

> I don't know whether the variable is meant to be set directly or only
> through `set_program_name'.

Either is fine.

> Shouldn't `program_name' be initialized in error.c instead (perhaps to
> a more meaningful value than NULL)?

I suppose it might make sense for error.c to avoid using program_name
if it's null.