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From: ron@brl-sem.ARPA (Ron Natalie )
Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc
Subject: Re: Check the Arg Count
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Date: Thu, 1-Jan-87 16:18:30 EST
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Posted: Thu Jan  1 16:18:30 1987
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You are wrong.  Variable length argument lists are not compelled to work
in C.  In fact, they frequently don't.  That's why we have varargs, which
fudges a variable number of arguments in a fixed calling sequence.  Printf
just happens to get lucky (and frequently is not written in "C" either).

-Ron