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From: jmbj@grebyn.com (Jim Bittman)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.programmer
Subject: General 'C' Preprocessor Question
Keywords: Variable number of arguments
Message-ID: <1991Feb26.082837.5618@grebyn.com>
Date: 26 Feb 91 08:28:37 GMT
Organization: Grebyn Corporation
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Is it possible to use the preprocessor to handle a variable number
of arguments?  Let's say that I want to redefine "printf" to "sprintf".
Is this possible?
  #define printf(a) sprintf(mychbuf,a)
This works just fine if there are no arguments, such as:
  printf("Hello World\n");
This correctly processes to:
  sprintf(mychbuf,"Hello World\n");

I have checked the literature, but nothing seems to touch on this
subject.  Please post or e-mail any responses, I read this group
religously, and really like it!

Thank you.
Jim Bittman, jmbj@grebyn.com