C Programming: Forward variable argument list

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Don’t pass the results to printf. pass them to vprintf. vprintf specifically exists to handle passing in va_list arguments. From the Linux man page:

#include <stdio.h>

int printf(const char *format, ...);
int fprintf(FILE *stream, const char *format, ...);
int sprintf(char *str, const char *format, ...);
int snprintf(char *str, size_t size, const char *format, ...);

#include <stdarg.h>

int vprintf(const char *format, va_list ap);
int vfprintf(FILE *stream, const char *format, va_list ap);
int vsprintf(char *str, const char *format, va_list ap);
int vsnprintf(char *str, size_t size, const char *format, va_list ap);

Notice how the latter explicitly take va_list arguments such as the ones you declare inside a function taking ... in the parameter list. So your function would be declared like this:

void forward_args( const char *format , ... ){
   va_list arglist;
   va_start( arglist, format );
   vprintf( format, arglist );
   va_end( arglist );
}

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