Mail Archives: djgpp/1997/10/16/21:31:22
Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il> wrote:
> Writing documentation for a language like C or C++ is a very difficult
> task.
And stuff that, imho, really doesn't belong in the DJGPP documentation;
teaching someone used to Borland to use gcc is hard enough without having to
teach basic C as well. :)
> People who would like to learn about variable argument lists should
> get a good book on C. One such book is the classic "The C Programming
> Language", 2nd ed., by Kernighan and Ritchie.
A book I highly recommend; like many others, I learned from it, and still
consult it at least three times a day. :)
> I'm sure that DJ will gladly accept any explanation of <stdarg.h>
> macros and typedefs, if somebody will write and submit it. Since
> v2.02 is in the works, today would be a good time to do that.
> (Btw, don't confuse va_list and friends defined on ANSI-standard
> <stdarg.h> with non-ANSI <varargs.h>, they are two different and
> incompatible solutions to the same problem.)
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