gripe: variable arg lists

Tony L. Hansen hansen at pegasus.UUCP
Sat Nov 17 03:16:33 AEST 1984


< As to why _doprnt() was used: that's pretty easy.  There is no standard
< analog to printf which accepts a variable argument list *as an argument*.

Take a look at vprintf(3) in the System Vr2 manual. It is exactly what
you're asking for. Now if only it had been available and documented sooner!
(Vprintf also existed, undocumented, in System III, but not in System V.)
Now if only BSD would have picked up on it when 4.2 came along instead of
documenting _doprnt(3)!  Now if ....

					Tony Hansen
					pegasus!hansen



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