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Date: Tue, 06 Jun 2000 15:45:31 +0300
From: Laurynas Biveinis <lauras AT softhome DOT net>
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Subject: Re: ANSI C and stdio.h
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Hans-Bernhard Broeker wrote:
> Actually, the only reason I can see for importing the definition of
> va_list into <stdio.h> is that the compiler cannot accept that header,
> without it. Code that actually does use vfprintf() & friends will always
> have to #include <stdarg.h> to be portable. 

DJGPP allows this kind of unportable code, that's the reason we won't
fix it (now?)

> The remaining question is whether the *name* of the va_list type, as
> defined and used in <stdio.h> may have to be moved away from the public
> name space, i.e. renamed to something like
> 
>         __dj_va_list
> 
> with <stdarg.h> containing the same <sys/djtypes.h> use as <stdio.h> and
> an additional
> 
>         typedef __dj_va_list va_list;
> 
> to provide the 'official' name of that type.

That was the key question from the beginning and this was exactly the solution
I was thinking about.

Laurynas