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List:       linux-man
Subject:    Re: "..." in stdarg manual
From:       "Michael Kerrisk (man-opages)" <mtk.manpages () gmail ! com>
Date:       2019-04-12 14:27:15
Message-ID: 5b344e37-68b6-ecd0-dd5f-cb0668f9593f () gmail ! com
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Hello Egmont,

On 4/3/19 9:51 AM, Egmont Koblinger wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> The manpage of stdarg / va_stuff contains five occurrences of the string "...".
> 
> At the first four it's the standard way of denoting that the user
> (developer) has to fill in the missing bits. At the fifth occurrence
> it needs to remain there as-is.
> 
> May I recommend to clarify it, e.g. like this:
> 
> void
> foo(char *fmt, ... /* three literal dots */)

I see what you mean. I instead added the comment:

     /* '...' is C syntax for a variadic function */

Thanks for the report!

Cheers,

Michael
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