Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!steinmetz!davidsen
From: davidsen@steinmetz.ge.com (William E. Davidsen Jr)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: sun-3 dbx, arguments, hacking, help...
Message-ID: <10579@steinmetz.ge.com>
Date: 26 Apr 88 16:14:55 GMT
References: <1641@homxb.UUCP>
Reply-To: davidsen@crdos1.UUCP (bill davidsen)
Organization: General Electric CRD, Schenectady, NY
Lines: 9
Keywords: Kludge, Hack, Hack


  One of the things lost in the move from B to C was the function nargs,
which was a real part of the language. There had to be something in the
calling sequence to allow the called program to determine the number of
arguments. There were no types so we didn't have any problem there.
-- 
	bill davidsen		(wedu@ge-crd.arpa)
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"Stupidity, like virtue, is its own reward" -me