On Wed, Jan 18, 2006 at 04:59:40PM -0500, izimmerman@borderware.com wrote:
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> William> Well, sometimes I use a neat hack to add optional final
> William> arguments to functions, but it requires C99's
> William> __VA_ARGS__. Actually, I find it somewhat elegant when used
> William> purposefully, like in this case. And of course, when the
> William> routine isn't expected to be taken as a pointer, at which point
> William> macro magic becomes an offense punishable by death.
>
> Here's one ares user who can't compile with C99 (yet, it will change
> in a couple of months, I hope).
What compiler are you using? Generally new features aren't added in C unless
most compilers already have some support for the feature in one way or
another (or unless the Fortran folks step into the fray).
Though, probably it isn't worth the trouble to use this method.
Received on Wed Jan 18 23:40:44 2006