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Article #3821Re: gets() and getchar
From: Michael Shields
Date: Tue, 22 Aug 1995 23:06
Date: Tue, 22 Aug 1995 23:06
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In article <41cj80$7s8@solutions.solon.com>, Peter Seebach <seebs@solutions.solon.com> wrote: > In all of which you can tell, by examining the first argument, how many more > there are. How do you tell for your proposed gets? Your solution *must not* > require special magic sentinel values on the stack, or any other such > magic; it must be possible with stdargs. Otherwise we're requiring unfair > magic, and potentially quite a lot of extra overhead, from the compiler > vendors. And making it impossible to implement a version with C89, meaning that it would be years before you could use the two-argument form in portable code. -- Shields.
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!news.tembel.org!not-for-mail From: shields@tembel.org (Michael Shields) Newsgroups: comp.std.c Subject: Re: gets() and getchar Date: 22 Aug 1995 23:06:34 -0000 Organization: Tembel's Hedonic Commune Message-ID: <41dntq$f5j@yage.tembel.org> References: <Pine.ULT.3.91.950807194041.19202A-100000@mars> <412n2q$ka4@kruuna.helsinki.fi> <41b3ut$s2@caip.rutgers.edu> <41cj80$7s8@solutions.solon.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: yage.tembel.org NNTP-Posting-User: shields