`va_dcl' macro question

[Doug Gwyn]

In article <1964 at kappl.cs.vu.nl> maart at cs.vu.nl (Maarten Litmaath) writes:
>Anybody got an example (of some weird architecture) to show why it has been
>decided that no semicolon shall follow `va_dcl'?

No, but it's always been that way and nobody is going to change it now.

>	int	printf(fmt, va_alist)
>	char	*fmt;
>	va_dcl;
>	{
>		...
>	}

Apart from the question of the semicolon, this is wrong anyway.
It's not permissible to mix fixed parameter declarations with the
va_alist.  va_alist must stand alone as the only parameter, with
known parameters then being fetched from it via va_arg.  This of
course applies only to varargs; in ANSI C, one has at least one
fixed parameter and uses the ,... notation.