On Sep 30, 2011, at 4:43 PM, Joseph S. Myers wrote: > On Thu, 29 Sep 2011, Tristan Gingold wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> DEC-C, the DEC compiler provided on VMS, has added to ANSI-C at least >> one extension that is difficult to work-around as it is used in the >> system headers: varargs without named argument. It makes sense on VMS >> because of its ABI which pass the number of arguments used. > > If it's about system headers, is there a reason you used a command-line > option rather than having a target hook that controls whether the front > end accepts this in system headers (only)?
If you prefer a target hook, I'm fine with that. I will write such a patch. I don't think it must be restricted to system headers, as it is possible that the user 'imports' such a function (and define it in one of VMS favorite languages such as macro-32 or bliss). Tristan.
