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From: ksand@apple.com (Kent Sandvik)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aux
Subject: Re: Porting MPW C code to A/UX, Can some one give me a hand?
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Date: 7 Jun 91 01:27:15 GMT
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In article <1991Jun6.071753.4907@newshost.anu.edu.au>, djp862@anu.oz.au ("David J Peterson") writes:
> 
> 
> I'm trying to port some code written in MPW C to A/UX and am having
> some trouble with the variable argument declarations in MPW C.
> 
> In MPW the function are prototyped as:
> 
> function( int, ... )	/* one int, and then none to ? _ints_ */
> 
> The functions are expecting a list of integers (not a character
> string) to be passed as the variable argument list. MPW C has no
> problem compiling this, but A/UX cc (and gcc) just chokes with "number
> of arguments doesn't match prototype" on the function definition line
> (not the prototype).
> 
> Does anyone know how to kick A/UX into accepting this? (the
> -traditional flag in gcc doesn't do it).



This is an ANSI C:ish thing, so I guess any gcc flags that turn on 
the ANSI behaviour should parse this context. I guess that both
the ... and the Apple special command-; to generate ... should work,
but I'm not sure about that either so check for that.

Kent