Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!auspex!guy
From: guy@auspex.UUCP (Guy Harris)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: passing variable numbers of arguments
Message-ID: <821@auspex.UUCP>
Date: 9 Jan 89 20:50:57 GMT
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Reply-To: guy@auspex.UUCP (Guy Harris)
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 >>                                        Wouldn't it have been reasonable for
 >> the standard to specify that the compiler should enable the called function
 >> to determine the number of parameters that were passed, by automatically
 >> passing this information as a first implicit parameter, for example?
 >
...
 >For one thing, that would slow down every call a little.

To be fair, it wouldn't have to slow *every* call down, just calls to
functions for which a prototype is in scope that specifies that it is a
varargs function....