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From: gwyn@smoke.brl.mil (Doug Gwyn)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: varargs
Keywords: varargs
Message-ID: <15121@smoke.brl.mil>
Date: 7 Feb 91 19:19:50 GMT
References: <1428@tau.sm.luth.se>
Organization: U.S. Army Ballistic Research Laboratory, APG, MD.
Lines: 28

In article <1428@tau.sm.luth.se> d90-pan@sm.luth.se (Per Andersson) writes:
>I have a big problem using the varargs library.

True.

>What I want to do is to write a function that takes a variable number of
>arguments and simply passes them on to another function like this:
>	a_func( va_alist )
>	va_dcl
>	{
>		b_func( va_alist );
>	};

	a_func( va_alist )
		va_dcl
		{
		va_list	ap;
		va_start( ap );
		b_func( ap );
		va_end( ap );
		}

	b_func( ap )
		va_list ap;
		{
		char *fmt = va_arg( ap, char * );
		...
		}