From: firewind <firewind AT metroid DOT dyn DOT ml DOT org>
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Subject: Re: q: va_list and va_start?
Date: 16 Oct 1997 01:18:09 GMT
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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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