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From: ron@motmpl.UUCP (Ron Widell)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: variable number of strings passed to function - how?
Message-ID: <1056@motmpl.UUCP>
Date: 30 Oct 88 05:47:02 GMT
Article-I.D.: motmpl.1056
References: <434@tutor.UUCP> <3533@ihuxz.ATT.COM> <787@ubu.warwick.UUCP>
Reply-To: ron@motmpl.UUCP (Ron Widell)
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In article <787@ubu.warwick.UUCP> alfie@warwick.UUCP (Nick Holloway) writes:
[An otherwise good example of argument evaluation ordering]
=Demonstration 2:
=    test (a,b) int a,b; 
=	{ printf ( "&a=%u\n&b=%u\n", (unsigned)&a, (unsigned)&b ); }
=    main () { test ( 1, 2 );}
=
=On the sun3, the output was: (args at increasing addresses)
=    &a=251657624
=    &b=251657628
=On the sun4: (args at decreasing addresses)
		       ^^^^^^^^^^  Huh ?
=    &a=4160748428
=    &b=4160748432
I'm not sure what you mean here. It appears to me that the address of
b is higher than that of a, just like the sun3 (it's certainly a larger
number ;-)).

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