Blind spot in varargs macros

[Barry Margolin]

In article <1781 at ruuinf.cs.ruu.nl> piet at cs.ruu.nl (Piet van Oostrum) writes:
>OK, that means it is impossible to call printf() or scanf() from an
>interpreter, other than doing at least part of the printf work yourself (at
>least interpreting the '%' formats.

You couldn't do this before the ANSI C effort, so why should you expect to
be able to do it now?  There was very little existing practice in this area
on which to base a standard mechanism, in contrast to the common varargs
practice that formed the basis for stdarg.
Barry Margolin, Thinking Machines Corp.

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