VA_ARG(3P)

🫶 PROLOG 🫶

okay so real talk bestie, this page is part of the POSIX Programmer's Manual. 💖

the Linux implementation of this interface may differ — like, go consult the corresponding Linux manual page for the deets on Linux behavior, fr. or honestly? the interface might just not be implemented on Linux at all. 💀 so vibe check before you commit, iykyk.

✨ NAME ✨

va_arg, va_copy, va_end, va_start — handle variable argument list 🎀

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

#include <stdarg.h>

type va_arg(va_list ap, type);
void va_copy(va_list dest, va_list src);
void va_end(va_list ap);
void va_start(va_list ap, argN);

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

bestie, this one's a referral, not a whole essay. Refer to the Base Definitions volume of POSIX.1‐2017, <stdarg.h> 👑

👑 COPYRIGHT 👑

Portions of this text are reprinted and reproduced in electronic form from IEEE Std 1003.1-2017, Standard for Information Technology -- Portable Operating System Interface (POSIX), The Open Group Base Specifications Issue 7, 2018 Edition, Copyright (C) 2018 by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc and The Open Group.

In the event of any discrepancy between this version and the original IEEE and The Open Group Standard, the original IEEE and The Open Group Standard is the referee document. periodt, the original wins, no debate. 🫡

The original Standard can be obtained online at http://www.opengroup.org/unix/online.html .

Any typographical or formatting errors that appear in this page are most likely to have been introduced during the conversion of the source files to man page format. To report such errors, see https://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/reporting_bugs.html .

and that's the whole thing, bestie 💅 this page is from IEEE and The Open Group, dated 2017, and it goes by VA_ARG(3P). mwah, slay, go read <stdarg.h> in the Base Definitions volume 🌈💜