# The following was supposedly scribed by # Eric Wilhelm # on Saturday 21 August 2004 07:28 pm:
>>Hmmm .... I've been starting to fear that there's going to be much more >>to this than I originally thought. The last part of that sentence does >>little to allay that fear :-) >So, you need a function or macro which converts or casts one perl type into > a C type, and some way to put that into the va_list. I currently know > nothing about va_list, but it looks like this needs to fetch a variable > list of arguments from the list that came into the function. That's not > really what you want. ack! Can it not be done? http://www.faqs.org/faqs/C-faq/faq/index.html " 15.12: How can I write a function which takes a variable number of arguments and passes them to some other function (which takes a variable number of arguments)? A: In general, you cannot. Ideally, you should provide a version of that other function which accepts a va_list pointer (analogous to vfprintf(); see question 15.5 above). If the arguments must be passed directly as actual arguments, or if you do not have the option of rewriting the second function to accept a va_list (in other words, if the second, called function must accept a variable number of arguments, not a va_list), no portable solution is possible. (The problem could perhaps be solved by resorting to machine-specific assembly language; see also question 15.13 below.) " Is there a "vgmp_printf" function? Sounds like you'll need one. --Eric -- "When the going gets tough, most people quit." --Unknown
