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From: rfg@NCD.COM (Ron Guilmette)
Newsgroups: comp.std.c
Subject: Re: prototypes required ?
Keywords: printf stdargs prototypes
Message-ID: <2289@lupine.NCD.COM>
Date: 27 Oct 90 17:40:29 GMT
References: <27066@mimsy.umd.edu> <2173@lupine.NCD.COM> <27098@mimsy.umd.edu>
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In article <27098@mimsy.umd.edu> chris@mimsy.umd.edu (Chris Torek) writes:
<In article <2173@lupine.NCD.COM> rfg@NCD.COM (Ron Guilmette) writes:
<>Note that I said that on this particular machine, va_list is a *struct*
<>type (*not* a pointer to struct type).  Therefore, declaring the last
<>parameter for vprintf() as a void* is certainly not going to work right.
<
<True.  I made the assumption that the system on that machine actually
<worked...

Just to clarify, the <stdio.h> file that contained the travesty that I
described earlier was a part of somebody's broken version of an uncompleted
U*IX-like system.

It had not yet been fully tested and was not yet fully operational (as
should be evident, based upon the brokenness of the <stdio.h> file).

I apologize to all concerned if I gave you the impression that the bogus
declaration for vprintf() that I described came out of a working system.
It didn't.

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