ANSI C prototypes

[J.T. Conklin]

In article <1005 at christopher-robin.cs.bham.ac.uk> ptf at uk.ac.bham.cs (Paul Flinders <FlindersPT>) writes:
>
>This works fine _except_ for varargs functions eg.
>
>in foo.h:
>	extern void ddprintf(const char *fmt, ...);
>
>BUT in foo.c:
>
>	void ddprintf(va_alist)
>	va_dcl;

You seem to be using the old style <varargs.h> interface which is not
compatible with prototypes.  Try something like

	#include <stdarg.h>

	void
	ddprintf(const char *fmt, ...)
	{
		va_list	args;

		va_start(args, fmt);
		vfprintf(stderr, fmt, args);
		va_end(args);
	}

    --jtc

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