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From: peter@brontolo.sublink.ORG (Network administrator)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Grabbing "n" arguments in a function
Summary: Not ever...
Message-ID: <347@brontolo.sublink.ORG>
Date: 28 Apr 90 21:55:37 GMT
References: <744@tmiuv0.uucp> <559@dplace.UUCP> <297@ndla.UUCP>
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In article <297@ndla.UUCP>, platt@ndla.UUCP (Daniel E. Platt) writes:
] In article <559@dplace.UUCP>, djl@dplace.UUCP (Dave Lampe) writes:
] > rick@tmiuv0.uucp writes:
] > 
] > >What's the most portable way for a function to receive an arbitrary list of
] > >arguments?  The function must receive "n" arguments, all of which are char.
] > >pointers:
] > 
] > >    char *weirdfunc(char *arg1, char *arg2, ... char *argn) {
] > 
] ...In your case 
] you'ld continue popping the things from the stack until you got a NULL.

Dan's method to get arguments from the function's stack is very usefull,
and is worth ok on every OS and C compiler I have tried, exept for the
DEC's RISC one.

Does anybody out there know how to do the same variable argument call
(WITHOUT "varargs", please! [it doesn't work, too!!!!!]) under MIPS
RISC workstation (or DEC's one) ?????????
Thank you
Peter


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