Update: Better utilize functionality of C for extern types.

Update: Better utilize functionality of C for extern types.

I am creating a string pointer and passing it through a structure to dynamically pass different progam names for each program.
This is fine for many languages that are not C/C++.

For C/C++, this can be done in a cleaner and more efficient way.
The extern type can be declared in the main project and use that.
Then, the final binary is the only case where the actual implementation of the extern variable must exist.
That means each program (init and controller) will define their own program name string.
No extra memory in the structure needs to be used.
This is cleaner, simpler, and more maintainable.