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According to C99 \[[ISO/IEC 9899:1999|AA. C References#ISO/IEC 9899-1999]\]

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After a call to the POSIX {{setenv()}} function, or another function that modifies the environment, the {{envp}} pointer may no longer reference the environment.  POSIX states that \[[Open Group 04|AA. C References#Open Group 04]\]

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According to the Visual C++ reference \[[MSDN|AA. C References#MSDN]\]

The environment block passed to main and wmain is a "frozen" copy of the current environment. If you subsequently change the environment via a call to putenv or _wputenv, the current environment (as returned by getenv / _wgetenv and the _environ / _wenviron variable) will change, but the block pointed to by envp will not change.

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\[[ISO/IEC 9899:1999|AA. C References#ISO/IEC 9899-1999]\] Section J.5.1, "Environment Arguments"
\[[MSDN|AA. C References#MSDN]\] [{{getenv, _wgetenv}}|http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/tehxacec.aspx], [{{_environ, _wenviron}}|http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/stxk41x1.aspx], [{{_putenv_s, _wputenv_s}}|http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/eyw7eyfw.aspx]
\[[Open Group 04|AA. C References#Open Group 04]\] [{{setenv()}}|http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/functions/setenv.html]

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