Is va_list defined by <stdio.h>?

Doug Gwyn gwyn at smoke.brl.mil
Sat Apr 6 14:52:18 AEST 1991


In article <16863 at hoptoad.uucp> gnu at hoptoad.uucp (John Gilmore) writes:
>In an ANSI C implementation, it appears that the type "va_list" must be
>defined by <stdio.h> ...

NO!  To the contrary, a conforming implementation must NOT define va_list
as a side effect of inclusion of <stdio.h>.

>but it is not possible for <stdio.h> to declare these functions without
>also declaring va_list, ...

False.



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