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From: eckstein@eniac.seas.upenn.edu (Craig Eckstein)
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Subject: A question on variable arguments and function calls
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Date: 22 Mar 91 06:20:05 GMT
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One part of the system I am currently writing is a "generalized call function."
It will be passed the function to be called and a variable list of arguments,
as well as other parameters.  

Has anyone written any similar systems? or have any tips on the best way to
approach this?  A particular concern of mine is how to read the arguments.
The conventional manner using <stdarg.h> appears to need to know the types
of possible arguments at compile time, which is not feasible in my case.  Is
there a way to read in the arguments with the argument type stored in some
data structure?

--Craig

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--Craig

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