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From: henry@utzoo.UUCP (Henry Spencer)
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Subject: Re: need info: %r in printf
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Date: Sun, 16-Oct-83 00:34:18 EDT
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Unfortunately, Guido van Rossum's solution to the lack of %r (declaring
a whole bunch of arguments) isn't portable either.  If you call a function
declared with m arguments and pass it n arguments, m != n, the resulting
behavior is machine-dependent.  In particular, you are *not* guaranteed
that the first passed argument will show up as the first declared one.
/* VARARGS 1 */ doesn't help -- it just shuts lint up, without affecting
how the compiler deals with the situation.
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				Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
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