[Freeciv-Dev] Re: (PR#3427) Remove noreturn attribute

["Jason Short" <jdorje@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Raimar Falke wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 27, 2003 at 12:37:16AM -0800, Jason Short wrote:

>>Can you point to any documentation on portably using variadic arguments
>>in macros?
> 
> 
> This construct is part of the C99 standard.
> 
> 6.10.3.1 Argument substitution
> ...
> 
> An identifier __VA_ARGS__ that occurs in the replacement list shall be
> treated as if it were a parameter, and the variable arguments shall
> form the preprocessing tokens used to replace it.
> 
> There is also a nice example of its usage in "6.10.3.5 Scope of macro
> definitions".

Well, that's good, but unfortunately it brings us back to the C99 argument.

I'm in favor of using C99 (instead of C89).

jason