Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!purdue!haven!adm!smoke!gwyn
From: gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: How do you build a varargs argument list?
Keywords: stdarg.h varargs(3) variable length argument list standard
Message-ID: <11253@smoke.BRL.MIL>
Date: 11 Oct 89 06:08:49 GMT
References: <1070@etnibsd.UUCP>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn)
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
Lines: 14

In article <1070@etnibsd.UUCP> sean@etnibsd.UUCP (Sean McElroy) writes:
>I'd like to know if there is a standard way of building a varargs
>format argument list which is implementation independent

No, not an official varargs/stdarg argument list.
You can accomplish a similar function using ordinary C data structures.

>You want to print the data using vprintf:

But not if you insist on this.

>... there is no varargs constructor.  Any reason for this?

"Limited utility."