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From: ark@alice.UucP (Andrew Koenig)
Newsgroups: net.lang.c
Subject: Re: Include the va_end!
Message-ID: <5381@alice.uUCp>
Date: Fri, 2-May-86 15:04:25 EDT
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Posted: Fri May  2 15:04:25 1986
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> The implementation is on the Pyramid 90x machine, the System V
> part of it (it runs both 4.2 and System V at the same time!), 
> where va_end is defined to be an '}'.

That implementation is simply wrong.  va_end is intended to be
executed (to free memory possibly acquired by va_start).  It
is **not** intended to be a syntactic entity.