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From: gnu@hoptoad.uucp (John Gilmore)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Another thing broken in ANSI C
Message-ID: <3726@hoptoad.uucp>
Date: 24 Dec 87 02:14:20 GMT
Organization: Nebula Consultants in San Francisco
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Another thing that ANSI C disallows is ALL prior uses of functions
with variable numbers of arguments.  All such functions must be declared
and defined with ", ..." notation, which did not exist before ANSI C.

However, most existing compilers will continue to accept the old way,
"as an extension", or will go deaf from screaming customers.

[The things I mentioned before can't be fixed, or are unlikely to be fixed,
by common extensions to the standard.  Is that more what people were looking
for?]
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