Variable argument lists.

[John F. Haugh II]

In article <504 at sas.UUCP> bts at sas.UUCP (Brian T. Schellenberger) writes:
>In article <14139 at brl-adm.ARPA> bates%falcon.dnet%fermat at bru.mayo.edu (Cary Bates) asks:

[ why can't functions with variable numbers of arguments determine the
  number of arguments they were called with? ]

>Because it is not possible to do so on many architectures, including lots of
>Unices.

could someone please present an example of an architecture were this
CAN'T be done?  and does anyone actually have timings for a system where
this has been done versus not to support the claim that doing this is
very expensive?

- john.
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