To: djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu
From: antony AT werple DOT mira DOT net DOT au (Antony Suter)
Subject: Re: variable amount of arguments to function
Date: Mon, 15 May 1995 13:23:15 -0400
Reply-To: antony AT werple DOT mira DOT net DOT au
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>  S DOT B DOT M DOT Verstege AT research DOT ptt DOT nl (Stefan Verstege) wrote:-
>> I have written a function that must accept [a] variable [amount of]
[snip]
>
>  On PC djgpp (not necessarily on other computers) it works like this:-
>/*-----*/
>int myfunction(int nargs,...){long int*p = (long int*)&nargs;
>
>/* The array p now contains all the arguments. p[0] = nargs. The rest of the
>arguments are in order left to right in the array p, each taking up as many

You should really use the va_start(), va_args(), etc. macros defined in
ANSI C, and in GCC's header files.

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