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>Oh?  If this is aberrant coding, you might want to look at your
>varargs.h file whose operation relies on these assumptions; and this is
>in the ANSI proposal.

Sorry, but this just doesn't hold water.  The ONLY thing in the ANSI
proposal about "varargs" is that there is an include file <stdarg.h>
(NOT <varargs.h>!) and that when you include it certain things are
defined.  There is nothing whatsoever in the ANSI spec that requires
that the <varargs.h> distributed with most UNIX systems has to work;
in fact, there are implementations on which it DOESN'T work.
(Consider a machine with register windows, where the first N scalar
parameters are not placed in memory at all - or any other
implementation that passes parameters in registers.)  Those
implementations have to do something else to make it work.

There is nothing in the ANSI draft that says anything whatsoever
about where variables are placed in memory relative to one another -
or about whether variables whose address isn't taken need be in
memory at all!