Another person had also mentioned the use of an ellipsis to indicate a function
which takes a number (possibly zero) of "fixed" arguments, and a number
of "variable" arguments after it; i.e.,
int fprintf(FILE *, char *, ...);
This is how it's done in C++, according to the C++ Reference Manual.
Guy Harris
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