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From: ark@alice.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Variable argument lists.
Message-ID: <7864@alice.UUCP>
Date: 11 May 88 04:11:36 GMT
References: <14139@brl-adm.ARPA>
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Liberty Corner NJ
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Posted: Wed May 11 00:11:36 1988

In article <14139@brl-adm.ARPA>, bates%falcon.dnet%fermat@bru.mayo.edu writes:
 
>        Does anybody know (or care) why in ANSI standard C when 
>        using a variable length argument list, there is no way to 
>        determine how many arguments where passed into the function?

Such a facility is hard to implement in some
machine architectures without significantly slowing down
every function call, even those that don't use it.