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From: catfood@NCoast.ORG (Mark W. Schumann)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Passing Variable Numbers of Arguments
Message-ID: <1991Feb17.003504.23932@NCoast.ORG>
Date: 17 Feb 91 00:35:04 GMT
References: <5196@media-lab.MEDIA.MIT.EDU>
Organization: North Coast Public Access Un*x (ncoast)
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In article <5196@media-lab.MEDIA.MIT.EDU> dyoung@media-lab.media.mit.edu.UUCP (David Young) writes:
>I'd like to be able to write a macro or a function that will take an
>unspecified number of arguments -- similar to how the printf() function
>works.  What I'd like is something that could transform a call like:
>
>     PringMsg( window, formatString, <formatArgs>)
>
>into the following chunk of code:
>
>     { 
>       sprintf( globalFoo, formatString, <formatArgs>);
>       BlahBlah( window, globalFoo);
>     }
>
>I was hoping to find something similar to the &rest capability of Lisp.
>But am scared I'll have to end up using vprintf().
>
>Can anyone help or offer a suggestion or solution?

vsprintf() is part of ANSI C according to my Turbo manual.
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