----Original Message----
>From: Zack Weinberg
>Sent: 08 March 2005 18:25
> Nathan Sidwell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
>> Dave Korn wrote:
>>
>>> There was under varargs, which didn't require to pass a named
>>> argument to va_start; it's only with stdargs that it would be
>>> impossible. I suspect that this is the underlying reason for the
>>> code having developed this way: sometimes the first variadic arg is
>>> the last named arg (stdargs), sometimes it is the first arg _after_
>>> the last named arg.
>
> This is exactly backward.
Hence my heartfelt expression of regret "...started well but had turned to
nonsense by the time I got this far"... :) Thanks for the in-depth
explanation.
cheers,
DaveK
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