OK... I'm trying to write a function that is close to scanf, but horribly more complex once you look at it. (I think so, anyway)
consider:
void interface( char *typelist, char *instring, void *function )
where typelist is a scanf type string, eg "%c%d%s"
instring is a list to scan from, eg "a14hello there"
and function is a function to call. In the above example it would be:
void function( char g, int num, char *str );
see what I mean? I need a way to generate a var_args style list, without actually using var_args, because they are just used for reading varargs, not passing them, as far as I can tell.
I'd preferably like a way to do it without having to consider each possible permutation of the typelist string, and I'd really like to be told it can be done in portable C... I could do it on a PC, with stack based passing using just a little hack - but thats not very portable - and I wouldn't have a clue how to do it so that it would work on ftoomsh anyway!
btw... the actual use of this code is very good - this is a highly simplified example, but anyway :P
I'd appreciate any help from all you clever ppl out there.... because I've spent a day on it and don't have a clue!
Regards,
Paul