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Re: variadic function

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Keith Thompson wrote:
) Do you suggest that there are *realistic* cases where a call to a
) variadic function passes N arguments, and the function itself processes
) fewer than N arguments, and where this does not indicate a logical error
) in the program?

In SQL, there is a function calles 'coalesce' which returns its first
non-NULL argument.  It doesn't need to process the remaining arguments.

) I can imagine an implementation where a variadic function that
) fails to consume all its arguments might cause Bad Things To Happen.
) For example, each invocation of va_arg() might pop the corresponding
) argument off the stack; failing to do so might leave the stack in an
) inconsistent state.  It could have much the same effect as passing
) two arguments to a non-variadic function with one parameter (say,
) by casting a function pointer to an inappropriate type), which has
) undefined behavior in C as it's currently defined.

Are you sure about that?
I thought that was allowed and the second argument was simply ignored.


SaSW, Willem
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variadic function Quentin Pope <qp19433@hotmail.NOSPAM.com> - 2011-11-05 22:32 +0000
  Re: variadic function Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2011-11-05 15:50 -0700
    Re: variadic function Quentin Pope <qp19433@hotmail.NOSPAM.com> - 2011-11-07 17:41 +0000
  Re: variadic function James Kuyper <jameskuyper@verizon.net> - 2011-11-05 18:53 -0400
    Re: variadic function Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2011-11-05 16:35 -0700
      Re: variadic function Kaz Kylheku <kaz@kylheku.com> - 2011-11-06 01:36 +0000
  Re: variadic function Kaz Kylheku <kaz@kylheku.com> - 2011-11-06 01:31 +0000
  Re: variadic function Barry Schwarz <schwarzb@dqel.com> - 2011-11-06 09:45 -0800
    Re: variadic function Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2011-11-06 11:38 -0800
      Re: variadic function Tim Rentsch <txr@alumni.caltech.edu> - 2012-01-24 23:24 -0800
        Re: variadic function Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2012-01-25 02:54 -0800
          Re: variadic function Tim Rentsch <txr@alumni.caltech.edu> - 2012-01-31 18:22 -0800
            Re: variadic function Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2012-01-31 21:50 -0800
              Re: variadic function James Kuyper <jameskuyper@verizon.net> - 2012-02-01 07:55 -0500
              Re: variadic function Eric Sosman <esosman@ieee-dot-org.invalid> - 2012-02-01 08:06 -0500
                Re: variadic function Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2012-02-01 11:42 -0800
              Re: variadic function Willem <willem@toad.stack.nl> - 2012-02-01 16:15 +0000
                Re: variadic function Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2012-02-01 11:41 -0800
              Re: variadic function Shao Miller <sha0.miller@gmail.com> - 2012-02-01 13:41 -0500
                Re: variadic function blp@cs.stanford.edu (Ben Pfaff) - 2012-02-01 10:45 -0800
              Re: variadic function Tim Rentsch <txr@alumni.caltech.edu> - 2012-03-08 10:30 -0800
                Re: variadic function Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2012-03-08 13:57 -0800
                Re: variadic function Tim Rentsch <txr@alumni.caltech.edu> - 2012-03-09 13:10 -0800
                Re: variadic function jgk@panix.com (Joe keane) - 2012-03-11 07:56 +0000
                Re: variadic function Tim Rentsch <txr@alumni.caltech.edu> - 2012-03-11 13:01 -0700
                Re: variadic function jgk@panix.com (Joe keane) - 2012-03-12 19:04 +0000
                Re: variadic function Tim Rentsch <txr@alumni.caltech.edu> - 2012-03-13 15:05 -0700

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