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From: gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn )
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Use of " ? : " in format param to printf
Keywords: printf
Message-ID: <9444@smoke.BRL.MIL>
Date: 19 Jan 89 20:18:02 GMT
References: <1454@leah.Albany.Edu>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) <gwyn>)
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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In article <1454@leah.Albany.Edu> rds95@leah.Albany.Edu (Robert Seals) writes:
>Does it matter if there are unused arguments to printf?

The proposed ANSI C Standard permits extra arguments (which are, as
always, evaluated, but otherwise unused).  It's hard to imagine an
implementation that would have problems with extra arguments to a
varargs-style function like printf().