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From: gwyn@brl-smoke.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Another thing broken in ANSI C
Message-ID: <7043@brl-smoke.ARPA>
Date: 11 Jan 88 23:55:33 GMT
References: <3726@hoptoad.uucp> <6922@brl-smoke.ARPA> <1178@wjvax.UUCP> <6979@brl-smoke.ARPA> <1183@wjvax.UUCP>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) <gwyn>)
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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Posted: Mon Jan 11 18:55:33 1988

In article <1183@wjvax.UUCP> brett@wjvax.UUCP (Brett Galloway) writes:
>All I asked was to take this one teeny step further -- change the names
>in <stdarg.h> and require <varargs.h> also to be defined with its
>current semantics where possible.

We cannot reasonably do the latter.  ANSI C must cater to architectures
and efficient C implementations where <varargs.h> is problematic.

As to the former, I've explained why this isn't a problem about as well
as I can..