printf() problem

[carroll at s.cs.uiuc.edu]

/* Written  6:01 pm  Apr 28, 1989 by dierks at ndmath.UUCP in s.cs.uiuc.edu:comp.lang.c */
( ... ) The alternative
seems to me to be making all functions that take a variable number of
arguments non-portable.  Is this the case?
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No more than the fact the different systems have different IO setups
makes using stdin/stdout/etc. non-portable. There is a standard method
for doing variadic arguments ("varargs") that takes care of the
non-portable parts, just as stdio.h takes care of IO differences.

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