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From: gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: <varargs.h> for Turbo C ?
Message-ID: <11279@smoke.BRL.MIL>
Date: 14 Oct 89 03:38:38 GMT
References: <5940011@hpcupt1.HP.COM> <66595@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn)
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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In article <66595@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu> Loyde W Hales <lwh@cis.ohio-state.edu> writes:
-...  Your problem is that you are looking in the wrong place.  For some
-reason they put it in <stdarg.h>, not the more common <vararg.h>.  (Actually,
-I know the reason.  Remember that ANSI is a draft; for distribution reasons
-many argued that the stuff should be in <stdarg.h> anyway.  This didn't
-happen, for consistency reasons.)
-If the name is that important to you, you can redefine it in the OS or via
-#define.

What in the world is this that you "know"??

<stdarg.h> is in the final C Standard; it replaces the functionality
of the widely-used <varargs.h> with a somewhat incompatible interface,
and requires that variadic functions be declared with the ,... notation.