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From: scjones@sdrc.UUCP (Larry Jones)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Syntax of function prototypes...
Message-ID: <354@sdrc.UUCP>
Date: 21 Aug 88 16:56:09 GMT
References: <8808171403.AA05181@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> <6105@venera.isi.edu> <13114@mimsy.UUCP>
Organization: Structural Dynamics Research Corp., Cincinnati
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In article <13114@mimsy.UUCP>, chris@mimsy.UUCP (Chris Torek) writes:
> [ not allowing "int foo(...);" is a mistake ]

The reason that form is disallowed is because the  macros require
the last argument before the ellipsis as an argument.  The reason the macros
require it is because some implimentors insisted they could not do varargs
without it.

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