Is it possible to make declaration of variadic function so that it doesn't end with "..."?
Today I learned more about exec from unistd.h but through the day I've seen three (two actually) different declaration of execl:
1) int execl ( const char * path, const char * arg0, ..., (char*)NULL );
was shown to us in school and I imagined I would have to end the function call with a NULL value
2) int execl(const char *path, const char *arg, ... /* (char *) NULL */);
is what I've found in the exec(3) man page. That would probably mean I still have to end it with a NULL value, but it is not enforced.
3) int execl(const char *path, const char *arg, ...);
is what I found here. This one would probably normally put me to rest with the first one being a simplification for students, the second was a varning and this is the real thing (even though I would probably have normally higher regard for both options one and two.)
But then I found on the same site this declaration:
int execle(const char *path, const char *arg, ..., char * const envp[]);
Same question applies, I was unable to create variadic function not ending in ...
with gcc telling me that it's expecting ')' before ',' token
pointing to the comma after the three dots.
So finally, is it possible to make variadic functions ending with a NULL characters (execl) and if not, is it possible to make it end with predefined variable (execle)?
I tried to compile with gcc 6.3.1, I also tried --std=c11.