Does there exist any way to make the command-line arguments available to other functions without passing them as arguments to the function?

If the different command line arguments are supplied at different times would the output of the following program change?

#include<stdio.h>

int main(int argc, char **argv)
{
    printf("%d\n", argv[argc]);
    return 0;
}

In Turbo C/C++ under DOS if we want that any wild card characters in the command-line arguments should be appropriately expanded, are we required to make any special provision?

The first argument to be supplied at command-line must always be count of total arguments.

Even if integer/float arguments are supplied at command prompt they are treated as strings.