Knowing the number of variable arguments.

[Alexandre Oliva]

On May 29, 2000, Gigi Sullivan <sullivan@sikurezza.org> wrote:

> 	Well, I know that using va_start/va_arg and va_end I can
> 	scan all the variable arguments list, but what if I'd like
> 	to know the *number* of the variable arguments?

There's no portable way.  That's why functions with variable number of
arguments require at least one argument: so that you can pass in some
clue about the other arguments.

> 	This is bad, since I cannot know *when* the list is terminated

How about requiring a NULL terminator, as in exec()?

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