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From: gwyn@smoke.brl.mil (Doug Gwyn)
Newsgroups: comp.std.c
Subject: Re: Is va_list defined by <stdio.h>?
Message-ID: <15740@smoke.brl.mil>
Date: 6 Apr 91 04:52:18 GMT
References: <16863@hoptoad.uucp>
Organization: U.S. Army Ballistic Research Laboratory, APG, MD.
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In article <16863@hoptoad.uucp> gnu@hoptoad.uucp (John Gilmore) writes:
>In an ANSI C implementation, it appears that the type "va_list" must be
>defined by <stdio.h> ...

NO!  To the contrary, a conforming implementation must NOT define va_list
as a side effect of inclusion of <stdio.h>.

>but it is not possible for <stdio.h> to declare these functions without
>also declaring va_list, ...

False.