Is va_list defined by <stdio.h>?

[Doug Gwyn]

In article <16965 at hoptoad.uucp> gnu at hoptoad.uucp (John Gilmore) writes:
>I believe that ANSI C should not have forced us to introduce these two
>new problems.  In other words, this is a botch in the standard, that
>should be fixed in its next revision.  Preferably the fix will simply
>permit <stdio.h> to define va_list, or indeed, for it to include
><stdarg.h>, so that no backdoor monkeyshines at all would be needed.

Many of the top C experts in the world disagreed with you.
I think the standard has this exactly right.
However, it does look like 4.4BSD has an awkward implementation.
That's not the fault of the standard.