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Re: more va_dcl problems
- To: Todd Vierling <tv at pobox dot com>
- Subject: Re: more va_dcl problems
- From: Zack Weinberg <zack at rabi dot columbia dot edu>
- Date: Sun, 08 Nov 1998 22:19:55 -0500
- cc: egcs-bugs at cygnus dot com
On Sun, 8 Nov 1998 20:11:59 -0500 (EST), Todd Vierling wrote:
>This doesn't look like legal K&R C to me. The proper use of K&R varargs is:
>
>#include <varargs.h>
>
>returntype functionname(var1, var2, va_alist)
> var1type var1;
> var2type var2;
> va_dcl
>{
> function body
>}
>
>which _does_ work on egcs 1.1 branch.
Are you sure the va_alist decl is required? My old SunOS 4 docs imply
that you can get away with an empty argument list. (They also say
that you can't have named parameters in a varargs function.)
zw