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From: gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: "..." in declarations
Message-ID: <10538@smoke.BRL.MIL>
Date: 16 Jul 89 08:53:53 GMT
References: <3994@udccvax1.acs.udel.EDU>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn)
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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In article <3994@udccvax1.acs.udel.EDU> gdtltr@vax1.acs.udel.EDU (Gary D Duzan) writes:
>   On page 155 of K&R Second Edition, "..." is used for creating variable
>argument lists in declarations. What I want to know is if this is generally
>accepted and/or used.

It's the only portable way of creating printf-like functions in a
Standard C environment.  Of course, older compilers don't support
this syntax, so its use is limited to recent and future compilers.