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From: maart@cs.vu.nl (Maarten Litmaath)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: `va_dcl' macro question
Message-ID: <1964@kappl.cs.vu.nl>
Date: 25 Jan 89 05:26:18 GMT
Organization: V.U. Informatica, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
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Anybody got an example (of some weird architecture) to show why it has been
decided that no semicolon shall follow `va_dcl'?
On a Sun (4.3BSD), a VAX (4.3BSD) and a Mantra (SysV) the define for `va_dcl'
is simply:

	# define va_dcl int va_alist;

In these cases the semicolon could have been removed from the `define' and
added to the invocation:

	int	printf(fmt, va_alist)
	char	*fmt;
	va_dcl;
	{
		...
	}

To me this appears more natural.
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