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From: gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: on the fringe of C syntax/semantics
Message-ID: <11274@smoke.BRL.MIL>
Date: 14 Oct 89 03:10:14 GMT
References: <80100001@bonzo> <19971@mimsy.UUCP> <2792@lyle.UUCP>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn)
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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In article <2792@lyle.UUCP> peterson@lyle.UUCP (James L. Peterson/1000000) writes:
>How do we refer to the "rest of the argument list".

You have to pass the va_list you've va_start()ed (i.e. argp).
The called function now gets an argument fo a definite type (va_list),
not a variable list of arguments.  It must use the va_arg() macro to
pick off the remaining arguments.