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From: karl@ima.isc.com (Karl Heuer)
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Subject: Re: Reality check
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Date: 5 Nov 90 23:36:23 GMT
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In article <27820@usc> blarson@dianne.usc.edu (bob larson) writes:
>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 had no trouble implementing <stdarg.h> without touching any compiler
source.  It even works on pre-ANSI compilers, so I can take code written with
ANSI prototypes and <stdarg.h> and simply deprotoize it without having to
worry about converting <stdarg.h> to <varargs.h>.

Karl W. Z. Heuer (karl@ima.isc.com or uunet!ima!karl), The Walking Lint