From:	"Richard Jernigan" <richard AT randomly DOT com>
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Subject:	Re: Help with variable argument-list (va_list)
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> I have tried the code below, and the first argument works, but not the
> second. What is wrong in this example?
>
> void test_me(char *fmt, ... ) {
>    va_list ap;
>    va_start(ap,fmt);
>    printf(fmt,va_arg(ap,va_list));
>    va_end(ap);
>    }

va_arg evaluates to only the next element in the list. You need something
like this:

void test_me(char *fmt, ...) {
   va_list ap;
   va_start(ap, fmt);
   vprintf(fmt, ap);
   va_end(ap);
}

--Richard

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