on the fringe of C syntax/semantics

[Wm E Davidsen Jr]

In article <80100001 at bonzo>, roy at bonzo.sts.COM writes:
|  
|  Here are a couple questions that come up in conjunction with using the
|  'varargs' series of function calls.  When calling the va_arg()
|  function, the 2nd parameter is supposed to be simply a type, such as
   ^^^^^^^^^ nope, macro. Does that make it clear?

It does something like this:
	#define va_arg(list,mode) list+=sizeof(mode),((mode *)list)[-1]
or somthing along those lines.

|  '(int *())' and '(int ())' were two tries at declaring a general function

  If I understand the question, you want (int(*)())
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