Variable argument lists.

[Joseph Nathan Hall]

In article <14139 at brl-adm.ARPA> bates%falcon.dnet%fermat at bru.mayo.edu (Cary Bates) writes:
>
>       Does anybody know (or care) why in ANSI standard C when 
>       using a variable length argument list, there is no way to 
>       determine how many arguments where passed into the function?

That's because in theory one of the "fixed" arguments in your function's
argument list should indicate, either directly with a count, or indirectly
(like printf), how many arguments follow in the variable-length portion
of the argument list.


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