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Article #1870Re: Reality check (Was Re: prototypes required ?)
From: Doug Gwyn
Date: Fri, 19 Oct 1990 19:27
Date: Fri, 19 Oct 1990 19:27
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In article <1171@dms.UUCP> albaugh@dms.UUCP (Mike Albaugh) writes: > And neither will vast quantities of old code, which are used to >"rolling their own" varargs routines. That never was a very wise practice, and <varargs.h> was devised LONG AGO to provide portable support for such situations. I lost track of how many thousands of lines of other people's source code I have had to change to use <varargs.h> when porting to an environment different from the model that they assumed when they "rolled their own" variable- argument code. I expect most conforming implementations to also provide <varargs.h> as a convenience for their customers, although some may well require the extra hooks that the standard provides and thus really not be able to implement <varargs.h>, only <stdarg.h>.
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!watmath!att!rutgers!mit-eddie!wuarchive!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!aplcen!haven!adm!smoke!gwyn From: gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn) Newsgroups: comp.std.c Subject: Re: Reality check (Was Re: prototypes required ?) Message-ID: <14199@smoke.BRL.MIL> Date: 19 Oct 90 19:27:40 GMT References: <1061@dg.dg.com> <1171@dms.UUCP> Organization: U.S. Army Ballistic Research Laboratory, APG, MD. Lines: 15