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From: bates%falcon.dnet%fermat@bru.mayo.edu (Cary Bates)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Variable argument lists.
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Date: 10 May 88 19:54:55 GMT
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       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?