Objective-c main routine, what is: int argc, const char * argv[]

Question

What are the arguments passed into the main method of a command-line program:

int main(int argc, const char * argv[])

what is the first int mea

Answer 1

Just to add to the other answers - Objective-C targets both OS X and iOS. And while there is not much value in iOS command line applications, the shell on OS X is still widely used and there are lot of people writing command line tools.