Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!cmcl2!brl-adm!adm!bates%falcon.dnet%fermat@bru.mayo.edu From: bates%falcon.dnet%fermat@bru.mayo.edu (Cary Bates) Newsgroups: comp.lang.c Subject: Variable argument lists. Message-ID: <14139@brl-adm.ARPA> Date: 10 May 88 19:54:55 GMT Sender: news@brl-adm.ARPA Lines: 10 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? Without such a feature it seems to me that the most of the power of the variable argument list is wasted. In VAX C there is a macro called va_count. Why is such a macro missing from the ANSI standard?