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From: gwyn@brl-smoke.ARPA (Doug Gwyn )
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Problem with either ANSI 'C' or Dr Dobbs Journal.
Message-ID: <6241@brl-smoke.ARPA>
Date: Fri, 7-Aug-87 08:50:21 EDT
Article-I.D.: brl-smok.6241
Posted: Fri Aug  7 08:50:21 1987
Date-Received: Sun, 9-Aug-87 01:10:55 EDT
References: <449@sugar.UUCP> <8383@utzoo.UUCP>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) <gwyn>)
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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In article <8383@utzoo.UUCP> henry@utzoo.UUCP (Henry Spencer) writes:
>> It then adds that if no prototype is provided, the function may be
>> assumed to have a fixed number of arguments.
>This is simply wrong:  no prototype means no assumptions.

Perhaps what the article meant was that the <stdarg.h> facility
cannot be used in the absence of a (,...) style function prototype.
That is indeed true.