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From: gwyn@smoke.brl.mil (Doug Gwyn)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: varargs -> varargs mystery
Message-ID: <16068@smoke.brl.mil>
Date: 6 May 91 20:30:37 GMT
References: <1991May2.170148.12655@sparky.IMD.Sterling.COM> <4606@skye.ed.ac.uk> <3110@cirrusl.UUCP>
Organization: U.S. Army Ballistic Research Laboratory, APG, MD.
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In article <3110@cirrusl.UUCP> Rahul Dhesi <dhesi@cirrus.COM> writes:
>Briefly, the question was:  if A and B are varags functions, how can
>one portably write them so that A uses one argument and passes the rest
>to B?  The short answer is:  you can't.

Sure you can, but you have to pass the remaining arguments via a va_list
parameter, not scattered about.  I do this all the time.