on the fringe of C syntax/semantics

[Doug Gwyn]

In article <2792 at lyle.UUCP> peterson at lyle.UUCP (James L. Peterson/1000000) writes:
>How do we refer to the "rest of the argument list".

You have to pass the va_list you've va_start()ed (i.e. argp).
The called function now gets an argument fo a definite type (va_list),
not a variable list of arguments.  It must use the va_arg() macro to
pick off the remaining arguments.