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From: karl@haddock.ISC.COM (Karl Heuer)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: another auto-increment problem
Message-ID: <1329@haddock.ISC.COM>
Date: Tue, 6-Oct-87 21:07:01 EDT
Article-I.D.: haddock.1329
Posted: Tue Oct  6 21:07:01 1987
Date-Received: Fri, 9-Oct-87 23:44:18 EDT
References: <9600@brl-adm.ARPA> <15298@topaz.rutgers.edu>
Reply-To: karl@haddock.ima.isc.com (Karl Heuer)
Organization: Interactive Systems, Boston
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Summary: ANSI has <stdarg.h>

In article <15298@topaz.rutgers.edu> ron@topaz.rutgers.edu (Ron Natalie) writes:
>... Certainly variable number of arguments is easier handled by the first,
>but they are forbidden in ANSI C anyway.

Wrong.  Variadic functions are supported in ANSI C, but they must be declared
using prototypes (with the new ellipsis punctuator), and the only portable
way such a function can reference its later arguments is through <stdarg.h>.

Karl W. Z. Heuer (ima!haddock!karl or karl@haddock.isc.com), The Walking Lint