Re: SCM_CALL_N

[Rob Browning]

"Lars J. Aas" <address@hidden> writes:

> Try making your own wrapper around printf() and see.  You can't -
> you can only pretend you wrap printf() but actually forward the
> invokation to vprintf().  That's probably why the vprintf() family
> is there - so you can make your own variants that wrap the real
> printf-implementation.  It's a moot point since it's only a problem
> if you need to make wrapper functions, and you may not want to
> invest any extra effort in libguile to support that.

Actually this is a good point.  The problem is that there's no
portable (AFAIK) implementation of anything like "apply" for C given a
varargs list.  You can't build an argument list and then call a normal
varargs C function using that list.

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Rob Browning <address@hidden> PGP=E80E0D04F521A094 532B97F5D64E3930