Re: Possible variadic macro bug

[seebs at plethora dot net (Peter Seebach)]

In message <20011109164611.B15432@codesourcery.com>, Zack Weinberg writes:
>This is a continuing problem.  Speaking only for myself, I'd like to
>participate in C standardization, but it's not at all clear how.  My
>impression is that one must be a member of one's national body (which
>is not cheap) even to join the WG14 mailing list.

You should be able to get on the list anyway; I was a bit before I signed
up.  And yeah, it's sorta pricey - although I established that ANSI is
pretty willing to waive the fees for people with good stories.

>And I could probably afford to pay dues, but I don't know who to talk
>to about it.

Douglas Walls <dew@cobol.eng.sun.com>
is the rep for the U.S. national body, I believe.

>If you'd like I can write up both the "friendly name for __VA_ARGS__"
>and the "delete trailing comma with ##" extensions in DR format and send
>them to you.

That would be wonderful.

>> I just wish someone had caught it *before* the standard went out.  Hmm.

>If I remember correctly it did come up in late '98 on comp.std.c and no
>one took it particularly seriously (which is normal for discussions there).

It could have happened.  There was, in the past, a *very* disturbing tendency
for mutual NIH between ISO C and GNU C.  I've been hoping that will get better
with time.  :)

-s