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From: ark@alice.UUCP (Andrew Koenig)
Newsgroups: net.lang.c
Subject: Re: varargs.h
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Date: Fri, 22-Feb-85 10:34:41 EST
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Posted: Fri Feb 22 10:34:41 1985
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As the author of varargs, I would like to set the record straight.

The intention of varargs was that the type given to va_arg
should only be a type that is meaningful as a parameter.  Thus
char, short, and float are never meaningful because they
are automatically widened to int, int, and double respectively.