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  • adjective computing, mathematics, linguistics Taking a variable number of arguments; especially, taking arbitrarily many arguments.

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variable +‎ -adic

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  • This testing framework tries to keep testing quick and simple by avoiding complex compiler features such as variadic macros or C99 features that may not be ...

    Megite Technology News: What's Happening Right Now 2008

  • This testing framework tries to keep testing quick and simple by avoiding complex compiler features such as variadic macros or C99 features that may not be ...

    Megite Technology News: What's Happening Right Now 2008

  • This testing framework tries to keep testing quick and simple by avoiding complex compiler features such as variadic macros or C99 features that may not be ...

    Megite Technology News: What's Happening Right Now 2008

  • This testing framework tries to keep testing quick and simple by avoiding complex compiler features such as variadic macros or C99 features that may not be ...

    Megite Technology News: What's Happening Right Now 2008

  • This is what allowed us to easily implement variadic emplacement, and should make it easier to squash bugs in the future.

    Site Home vcblog 2011

  • Now we define variadic templates themselves as macros with lots of backslash-continuations, then expand them with master macros.

    Site Home vcblog 2011

  • Faux variadics: We've developed a new scheme for simulating variadic templates.

    Site Home vcblog 2011

  • So, I though to create a variadic function (like printf) but it will not print the result on screen but will malloc an string containing all the string passed in parameters.

    LinuxQuestions.org neioo 2010

  • So, I though to create a variadic function (like printf) but it will not print the result on screen but will malloc an string containing all the string passed in parameters.

    LinuxQuestions.org neioo 2010

  • And on that note, C++ has an interesting behavior that makes some variadic functions harder to use safely.

    Planet KDE 2009

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