C Program to print environment variables

The C standard says following about main function in C.

The function called at program startup is named main. The 
implementation declares no prototype for this function. It shall 
be defined with a return type of int and with no parameters:
       int main(void) { /* ... */ }
or with two parameters (referred to here as argc and argv, though 
any names may be used, as they are local to the function in which
they are declared):
       int main(int argc, char *argv[]) { /* ... */ }
or equivalent;10) or in some other implementation-defined manner.

But most of the compilers also support a third declaration of main that accepts third argument. The third argument stores all environment variables.

#include <stdio.h> 
  
// Most of the C compilers support a third parameter to main which 
// store all envorinment variables 
int main(int argc, char *argv[], char * envp[]) 
{ 
    int i; 
    for (i = 0; envp[i] != NULL; i++) 
        printf("\n%s", envp[i]); 
    getchar(); 
    return 0; 
} 

Output:

ALLUSERSPROFILE=C:\ProgramData
CommonProgramFiles=C:\Program Files\Common Files
HOMEDRIVE=C:
NUMBER_OF_PROCESSORS=2
OS=Windows_NT
PATHEXT=.COM;.EXE;.BAT;.CMD;.VBS;.VBE;.JS;.JSE;.WSF;.WSH;.MSC
PROCESSOR_ARCHITECTURE=x86
PROCESSOR_IDENTIFIER=x86 Family 6 Model 42 Stepping 7, GenuineIntel
PROCESSOR_LEVEL=6
PROCESSOR_REVISION=2a07
ProgramData=C:\ProgramData
ProgramFiles=C:\Program Files
PUBLIC=C:\Users\Public
SESSIONNAME=Console
SystemDrive=C:
SystemRoot=C:\Windows
WATCOM=C:\watcom
windir=C:\Windows

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