Re: small Q

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• Subject: Re: small Q
• From: jt <gkt37@dial.pipex.com>
• Date: Mon, 7 Aug 2000 19:30:05 -0400 (EDT)
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Bruce Hoult wrote:

[useful stuff]
> 
> -- Bruce

Yep, very clear, exactly what I needed. I'll have to go back to that
continuation thread as recommended and spend a while over it. 

> 
> [1] unless you use ... in the argument list, in which case the VARARGS
> macros have to work.  But how they work is unspecified and non-portable
> -- they have to work, but the compiler writer doesn't have to tell you
> *how*.

varargs are genuinely a very clever hack, an effective leveraging of C's
model of the underlying machine. I admire them from afar. I don't want
to use them, or C++.

thanks

jt

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