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From: ark@alice.UucP (Andrew Koenig)
Newsgroups: net.lang.c,net.unix-wizards
Subject: Re: varargs
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Date: Sun, 13-Apr-86 01:09:27 EST
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> I have always heard that varargs is not very portable.  Is this really
> true?  If you know of any machine that is running 4.X BSD, System III/V,
> Xenix or any other real unix that doesn't support varargs, please let
> me know.

> Under AIX there are 3 functions associated with varargs called:
> vsprintf, vprintf, vfprintf.  Are these only available on the IBM RT PC?

I am the author of varargs.

If you find any machine with a sensible architecture that cannot
be made to support varargs, I would greatly like to hear about it.

I also wrote the v*printf functions.  As far as I know, they are
a standard part of System V.