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From: barmar@leander.think.com (Barry Margolin)
Newsgroups: comp.std.c
Subject: Re: Blind spot in varargs macros
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Date: 9 Nov 89 23:26:52 GMT
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In article <1781@ruuinf.cs.ruu.nl> piet@cs.ruu.nl (Piet van Oostrum) writes:
>OK, that means it is impossible to call printf() or scanf() from an
>interpreter, other than doing at least part of the printf work yourself (at
>least interpreting the '%' formats.

You couldn't do this before the ANSI C effort, so why should you expect to
be able to do it now?  There was very little existing practice in this area
on which to base a standard mechanism, in contrast to the common varargs
practice that formed the basis for stdarg.
Barry Margolin, Thinking Machines Corp.

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