Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!dianne.usc.edu!blarson From: blarson@dianne.usc.edu (bob larson) Newsgroups: comp.std.c Subject: Re: Reality check (Was Re: prototypes required ?) Message-ID: <27820@usc> Date: 1 Nov 90 05:47:46 GMT References: <1171@dms.UUCP> <14199@smoke.BRL.MIL> Sender: news@usc Organization: USC software systems, home of TOADS Lines: 13 Nntp-Posting-Host: dianne.usc.edu In article meissner@osf.org (Michael Meissner) writes: >The one thing that varargs can do which stdarg can't, is vary the type Another big advantage to varargs is it can, on some systems, be implented without source to the C compiler. I understand why this was not of concern to ANSI, but it is to those of us who need varargs/stdargs functionality on systems without ANSI C compilers. (I've written a copuple of varargs implementations.) -- Bob Larson (blars) blarson@usc.edu usc!blarson Hiding differences does not make them go away. Accepting differences makes them unimportant.