Re: Detecting number of parameters of C function

From: Barry Margolin (barmar_at_alum.mit.edu)
Date: 06/29/04 

Date: Mon, 28 Jun 2004 18:41:18 -0400

In article <2kbidpFfpdqU1@uni-berlin.de>, Lev Walkin <vlm@lionet.info>
wrote:

> You don't need to know the number of arguments in order to print it
> for debugging purposes. Suppose, the function is being called with
> 3 or 4 arguments. If you print 4 values down the stack, it might still
> be okay, 'cause for human eye the fourth argument's value will likely be
> easily distinguishable.
>
> Yes, it does not give you precise answer, but this is probably the closest
> thing to the high level C programming. Other methods require
> a fair platform knowledge and are much less portable.

In fact, this is what many Unix debuggers do when they're asked to work
on a program that doesn't have a symbol table available. 

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Barry Margolin, barmar@alum.mit.edu
Arlington, MA
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