passing variable arguments

[Olaf Schlueter]

In article <1990Jun8.165259.8368 at agate.berkeley.edu> dankg at tornado.Berkeley.EDU (Dan KoGai) writes:
> In article <353 at ankh.ftl.fl.us> chin at ankh.ftl.fl.us (Albert Chin) writes:
> >How does printf() work. I believe there is some way in C to obtain the
> 	On C convention, arguments are pushed to the stack right to left
> order before it jumps to the function.  
> 	On Ansi C, you can use <stdarg.h> macro package to write variable
> argument function.  And variable argument is implied by "...".  Here's simple
> example:
[good example, which everyone shall use from now on and forever, deleted]

What Dan means with 'C convention' has never been an assured standard and
everyone should avoid this. It is possible to use another parameter passing
scheme even in K&R (prae ANSI) C. Before ANSI C there has been no portable
way to write a routine like printf in C. We should be glad that this has 
changed and forget about the elder days. Even with parameter passing on
stack assured, how will you port a programm written on a compiler with
32 Bit int's to one with a different int size ?

Mfg, (avoid E-Mail whenever possible, I have to pay for it)


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