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From: carroll@s.cs.uiuc.edu
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: printf() problem
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Date: 29 Apr 89 16:10:00 GMT
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/* Written  6:01 pm  Apr 28, 1989 by dierks@ndmath.UUCP in s.cs.uiuc.edu:comp.lang.c */
( ... ) The alternative
seems to me to be making all functions that take a variable number of
arguments non-portable.  Is this the case?
/* End of text from s.cs.uiuc.edu:comp.lang.c */

No more than the fact the different systems have different IO setups
makes using stdin/stdout/etc. non-portable. There is a standard method
for doing variadic arguments ("varargs") that takes care of the
non-portable parts, just as stdio.h takes care of IO differences.

Alan M. Carroll                "And there you are
carroll@s.cs.uiuc.edu           Saying 'We have the Moon, so now the Stars...'"
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