Re: RFC 334 (v1) I'm {STILL} trying to understand this...

[Nicholas Clark]

On Thu, Oct 12, 2000 at 03:24:23PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
> Dan Sugalski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> 
> > C's vararg handling sucks in many sublime and profound ways. It does,
> > though, work. If we declare in advance that all C-visible perl functions
> > have an official parameter list of (...), then we can make it work. The
> > calling program would just fetch function pointers from us somehow, and
> > do the call in.
> 
> Can't.  ISO C requires that all variadic functions take at least one named
> parameter.  The best you can do is something like (void *, ...).

(Perl_Interpreter *, ...)
surely?

[Having seen the pTHX_ appear all over perl5]

Nicholas Clark