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From: maart@cs.vu.nl (Maarten Litmaath)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: Important new program: cleanit.c
Message-ID: <3554@solo2.cs.vu.nl>
Date: 6 Oct 89 21:56:22 GMT
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ast@cs.vu.nl (Andy Tanenbaum) writes:
\...  This was a case of calling a function that was declared with
\   three formal parameters with two actual parameters, i.e. just leaving out
\   the last actual parameter.  Given the C calling sequence of pushing the
\   last parameter first, this is legal, [...]

I think it's always illegal: there might exist machines with `weird' calling
conventions which would choke over such mis-invocations (while still allowing
varargs functions).  (Aside: could you comment on that, Henry?)

Anyway, what's wrong with the shell script?

(I hope you don't feel offended by my .signatures: I'm just quoting funny
remarks.)
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