Re: gets() and getchar

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From: Peter Seebach
Date: Tue, 22 Aug 1995 12:40

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In article <41b3ut$s2@caip.rutgers.edu>,  <caip.rutgers.edu!halasz> wrote:
>There alreddie are special functions with optional arguments ....

In all of which you can tell, by examining the first argument, how many more
there are.  How do you tell for your proposed gets?  Your solution *must not*
require special magic sentinel values on the stack, or any other such
magic; it must be possible with stdargs.  Otherwise we're requiring unfair
magic, and potentially quite a lot of extra overhead, from the compiler
vendors.

-s
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