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From: brianh@hpcvia.CV.HP.COM (brian_helterline)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Passing variable length argument list to functions
Message-ID: <31530013@hpcvia.CV.HP.COM>
Date: 27 Jul 90 15:14:48 GMT
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Organization: Hewlett-Packard Co., Corvallis, Oregon
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>I want to create a routine called from C that receives a variable length
>argument list (just like printf() for example). How does one do that in
>C? In fact, if anyone could tell me how printf does it (or where I might
>find the code on my Sparc), that would be good enough.

	Can you say varargs? :)  You probably won't find the source for
	printf, but take a look at vprintf and varargs.h.  These should
	explain how to handle varaible length arguments.
>
>Thanks in advance.

	Your welcome in retrospect.


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Brian Helterline                                        brianh@hpcvia.cv.HP.COM
Hewlett Packard                                         ..!hp-pcd!hpcvia!brianh
Corvallis, OR  97330           				Warning: error C390 - 
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