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| author | Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> | 2019-05-05 12:09:55 -0500 |
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| committer | Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> | 2019-05-05 12:09:55 -0500 |
| commit | 263a6208f92f40dc1a9c43526bac8d22ef7b1bac (patch) | |
| tree | a827f31c84cd5ddb7b57113d65e068ef3836740f | |
| parent | 60bcc5abdd192de0334485936ad8e4e200f95cea (diff) | |
| download | man-pages-263a6208f92f40dc1a9c43526bac8d22ef7b1bac.tar.gz | |
stdarg.3: Remove the NOTES section describing the ancient varargs macros
stdarg.h is now 30 years old, and gcc long ago (2004) ceased to
implement <varargs.h>. There seems little value in keeping this
text.
See https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=202907
Reported-by: Vincent Lefevre <vincent@vinc17.net>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
| -rw-r--r-- | man3/stdarg.3 | 38 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 37 deletions
diff --git a/man3/stdarg.3 b/man3/stdarg.3 index d8dacec90c..d859e0283a 100644 --- a/man3/stdarg.3 +++ b/man3/stdarg.3 @@ -253,44 +253,8 @@ macros conform to C89. C99 defines the .BR va_copy () macro. -.SH NOTES -These macros are -.I not -compatible with the historic macros they replace. -A backward-compatible version can be found in the include file -.IR <varargs.h> . -.PP -The historic setup is: -.PP -.in +4n -.EX -#include <varargs.h> - -void -foo(va_alist) - va_dcl -{ - va_list ap; - - va_start(ap); - while (...) { - ... - x = va_arg(ap, type); - ... - } - va_end(ap); -} -.EE -.in -.PP -On some systems, -.I va_end -contains a closing \(aq}\(aq matching a \(aq{\(aq in -.IR va_start , -so that both macros must occur in the same function, and in a way -that allows this. .SH BUGS -Unlike the +Unlike the historical .B varargs macros, the .B stdarg |