Re: Variable length arg lists in C (gcc): stdarg vs. varargs

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From: Luis Oliveira
Date: Sun, 22 Oct 2000 00:00

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Barry Margolin <barmar@genuity.net> wrote:
>>>I don't think there's a vscanf(), though (it's not on my Solaris 2.6
>>>system).
>>
>>Present on Linux, but not on Solaris (AFAICT).

> So it's probably not required by ISO C or POSIX (unless it's a recent
> addition that hasn't made it into Solaris yet).

vscanf is required by ISO C99 (section 7.19.6.11) but it wasn't required
in the previous standard (C89).

Linux's vscanf is probably a GNU extension.

Cya

@551, Lu�s
Kernel 2.2.16, up 10 days
[GNU/Linux User #173658]

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