Re: Variable Argument Macros in VC++ .NET 2003/2005+

From:
Ulrich Eckhardt <eckhardt@satorlaser.com>
Newsgroups:
microsoft.public.vc.language
Date:
Fri, 05 May 2006 09:12:12 +0200
Message-ID:
<dfari3-s27.ln1@satorlaser.homedns.org>
James @ Castel wrote:

Is there a way to pass variable length argument lists through macros in
the new versions of Visual C++? I know version 6 failed to implement this
feature;


Sorry for jumping in here, but IIRC MSC12 predates standardisation of that
feature. You are talking about a pre-standard-C++ dinosaur!

For instance for the following function prototype:

#define LVL_DEBUG 0x00
int log( unsigned long lvl, ... );

* In GNU, one can define:

#define logdebug(format...) log( LVL_DEBUG, format )

* In Standard C, one can define:

#define logdebug( ... ) log( LVL_DEBUG, __VA_ARGS__ )

Is there an equivalent in Microsoft C?


What for? Typically, you will have or could factor out

  int vlog( unsigned long, va_list);

and log() will then be

  int log( unsigned long lvl, ...)
  {
    va_list va;
    va_start( va, lvl);
    int const res = vlog( lvl, va);
    va_end(va);
    return res;
  }

.... which you can easily throw into an (inline) function that does not
pollute the macro namespace like what you did above.

Uli

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