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From: brianh@hpcvia.CV.HP.COM (brian_helterline)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: my_printf calling printf
Message-ID: <31530036@hpcvia.CV.HP.COM>
Date: 27 Feb 91 16:31:31 GMT
References: <1991Feb26.101626.21779@fwi.uva.nl>
Organization: Hewlett-Packard Co., Corvallis, Oregon
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jik@athena.mit.edu (Jonathan I. Kamens) writes:
>In article <1991Feb26.101626.21779@fwi.uva.nl>, caspers@fwi.uva.nl (B.M. Caspers (I)) writes:
>|> I need to write a function that calls the win_printf of the DESQview API C
>|> library, which in its turn (I think) calls printf. Since I don't want to do
>|> any argument processing that printf should do, can I give the format string and the rest of the arguments unchanged to [win_]printf?
>
>  Is there a win_vprintf?  If so, that's what you're going to have to use.  If
>not, you're in trouble.
Not necesarily, you're only in trouble if you don't have vsprintf() since
you can use that to create a single char array argument and pass that to
win_printf.  Of course, figuring out how large of a char array is needed
is not always obvious.
>
>  See the section entitled "Variable-Length Argument Lists" in the monthly
>Frequently Asked Questions posting to this newsgroup.  If it isn't around at
>your site, E-mail me and I'll send it to you.