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Date: Sat, 29 Apr 2006 16:42:00 +0300
From: Diomidis Spinellis <dds@aueb.gr>
Organization: Athens University of Economics and Business
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Subject: Re: variadic without va_arg
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Bill Pursell wrote:
> Diomidis Spinellis wrote:
>> Bill Pursell wrote:
>>> I don't particularly enjoy using the va_start macro family, and I've
>>> noticed that the following code works.  I'm a little concerned about
>>> the fact that the prototypes for foo do not match.  Is this safe?

[...]

> Would it be portable to simply change the prototypes so that the caller
> has the interface:
> extern int foo(int num, ...)
> while the definition of the function gets:
> int foo(int num, int a, int b, int c, ...)?
> 
> That seems to satisfy the section of the standard you quote above, but
> it still feels wrong.

Still wrong; see Michael Mair's reply to your original post.




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