variable number of arguments
Doug Gwyn
gwyn at brl-smoke.ARPA
Sun Feb 28 10:45:10 AEST 1988
In article <51 at vsi.UUCP> friedl at vsi.UUCP (Stephen J. Friedl) writes:
> I have no specific reason to doubt the portability, but it
>strikes me that since args are so crazy on various machines (stack
>grows up, stack grows down, params passed in registers, etc.)
>that letting varargs handle *all* the details would not be a bad
>idea.
In fact that's the right way to use varargs. Declaring part of
the argument list is the wrong way. (This is the opposite of
ANSI C <stdarg.h> macros, where there MUST be at least one
"anchor" argument declared right before the variadic part.)
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