varargs

$Revision: 1.3 $

$Date: 2002/06/12 11:18:42 $

varargs — An empty element in a function synopsis indicating a variable number of arguments

Synopsis

Content Model

varargs ::=
EMPTY

Attributes

Common attributes

Description

VarArgs indicates that a function takes a variable number of arguments.

Processing expectations

The VarArgs element produces generated text that indicates that the function takes a variable number of arguments. The exact generated text may vary. One common result is “(…)”.

Parents

These elements contain varargs: funcprototype.

See Also

funcdef, funcparams, funcprototype, funcsynopsisinfo, function, paramdef, parameter, returnvalue, void.

Examples

<!DOCTYPE funcsynopsis PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.1.2//EN"
          "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.1.2/docbookx.dtd">
<funcsynopsis>
<funcsynopsisinfo>
#include &lt;varargs.h&gt;
</funcsynopsisinfo>
<funcprototype>
  <funcdef>int <function>max</function></funcdef>
  <varargs/>
</funcprototype>
</funcsynopsis>
#include <varargs.h>

int max(...);

For additional examples, see also funcsynopsis.