Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!bellcore!faline!thumper!ulysses!andante!alice!ark 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 Lines: 9 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.