Could use some help with variable length argument lists

[Marc Ramirez]

On Tue, Feb 10, 2004 at 03:37:00PM -0500, Jeremy Faulkner wrote:
> 
> 
> va_start says that the last required variable is "message".
> 
> You can't use ap because it's not in the list of variables when you 
> called the function.

ap doesn't represent a parameter, it represents the list. C/C++ have
no way of knowing how many parameters were passed in.  The information
in "message" tells the function how many parameters are in the list.

> _log(1, "Log test");
> 		  ^ There's nothing there to be "ap"
> 
> So it "Segmentation fault (core dumped)"'s
> 
> _log(1, "Log test", NULL);

If that were true, then

	printf("Hello, world!");

could never work.

Marc.

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