Variable arg function question

Roland Smith rsmith at xs4all.nl
Sun May 4 14:45:36 UTC 2008


On Sun, May 04, 2008 at 07:02:36AM -0700, Patrick Clochesy wrote:
> What about using a macro (...) in front of the function to csll it which 
> passes __VARARGS__, NULL to ensure there is always a trailing NULL? I think 
> this would at least work in GCC... Can' test on my phone though.

That's a good idea. If one uses __VA_ARGS__ instead of __VARARGS__, it
should work with any C99 compliant compiler, including gcc.

The good thing about variadic macros in C99[1] is that you don't need a
first argument.

Roland

[1: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Variadic_macro]
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