Re: printf

["Joseph Hardin" <lazer@zianet.com>]

They're probably changed to some sort of array, or pointer to the memory
address where they start or something
-----Original Message-----
From: Lionel Pinkhard <lionelp@worldonline.co.za>
To: gameprogrammer@gameprogrammer.com <gameprogrammer@gameprogrammer.com>
Date: Saturday, September 16, 2000 6:26 AM
Subject: Re: printf


>Yeah thanks! I was thinking something like that, 'cause I saw it in the
>'stdio.h' file, but I wasn't sure. But how do I use the parameters in the
>function? I mean, they won't have names or anything. Or should I do it
>like with Assembly functions or something? Please help me out here.
>
>Lionel
>
>On Thu, 14 Sep 2000, Ben Humphrey wrote:
>
>> You can create your own printf().
>>
>> The "..." parameter tells the compiler that there can be unlimited
>> parameters passed in (too a point I guess it becomes crazy..).
>>
>> Try to step in and debug it to fully see what it does.  i forget the
EXACT
>> syntax, but I did it once for school, I am sure
>> I have the program lying around...  I created  function that did that.
It's
>> real simple.
>>
>> Ben
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: Lionel Pinkhard <lionelp@worldonline.co.za>
>> To: <gameprogrammer@gameprogrammer.com>
>> Sent: Friday, September 15, 2000 12:52 AM
>> Subject: printf
>>
>>
>> > Hey guys,
>> >
>> > Can somebody tell me how exactly printf works? I'm just curious!
>> >
>> > What amazes me is that it takes any amount of parameters, how exactly
does
>> > that work?
>> >
>> > Caio,
>> >
>> > Lionel
>> >
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