Follow up to How Do I Prototype this?

[Colin Plumb]

In article <351 at demott.COM> kdq at demott.COM (Kevin D. Quitt) writes:
>BTW, my compiler accepts:
>
>int foo( int, ... );
>
>    but  rejects:
>
>int foo(...);
>
>    and calls the ... a syntax error.  Anyone: is the above declaration
>ANSI, or K&R, or none of the above?

... is an ANSI invention; no use of it is K&R.  However, ANSI requires at
least one argument of a known type before the ...  Consider: what type
of argument would you ask for first?  You've got no prior arguments to
conditionalise on, so it's got to be a fixed type.  So why not declare it?

(Well, you could use a global/static variable, but that's too sick for words.)
-- 
	-Colin