argv[1] not recognised outside of main
 

Hi
This is a C programming question. I have a function that gets called from main. In the definition of the function i use getaddrinfo. One of getaddrinfo's arguments is argv[1]. Because this function is defined outside of main, gcc complains that this function doesn't know what argv[1] is. I put the networking code in this function in question because sendto(this is a UDP client) doesn't know what the res structure is if i put it in main. Do i pass *argv[] as an argument to this function in question or what?
I can post the code if you want.
thank you very much for your time.

Oh i just did:
char **arg
as a global array. Then:
arg = argv
in main. The compiler doesn't complain about this. Please just reply if you don't think the solution is right!

It's OK. What I usually do is to pass argv as a parameter to the function that is being called.

It would probably be nicer to take just pass argv[1] (via global or parameter):
That way, if you start allowing options you only have to change the code in main() and not the networking code.