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From: carroll@s.cs.uiuc.edu
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Needed:  A (Portable) way of settin
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Date: 4 Jun 89 17:27:00 GMT
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/* Written 11:58 am  Jun  2, 1989 by gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL in s.cs.uiuc.edu:comp.lang.c */
In article <708@mitisft.Convergent.COM> kemnitz@mitisft.Convergent.COM (Gregory Kemnitz) writes:
>I need to know how (or if) *NIX (System V.3) has the ability to let
>a stack of arguments be set for a function before it is called. (...) 
Let's assume for the sake of simplicity that all the arguments have the
same type. (...)
/* End of text from s.cs.uiuc.edu:comp.lang.c */
If that's not the case, you can wrap the arguments in a union, and pass
an array of those, e.g. (assuming you can count on argument types)
union Argument {
        int i;
        float j;
        char *s;
        } ;
union Argument arg_list[MAX_ARGS];  /* array to pass */

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