Re: Cocoa-dev Digest, Vol 5, Issue 1956

FROM : Matthew Whillock
DATE : Mon Nov 17 13:23:56 2008

Have a look at:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Varargs

I know it's possible on linux/gcc so surely it works in osx.

Cheers,
Matt

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> Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2008 09:38:39 +0200
> From: "Oleg Krupnov" <oleg.<email_removed>>
> Subject: How to implement float min(float x, ...) ?
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> I apologize, this is plain old C, not Cocoa-specific question, but the
> fastest way to get the answer.
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> I want to create a function that finds the minimum out of a
> variable-length list of simple float arguments. In other words, I want
> this function:
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> float min(float x, ...);
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> Can anyone suggest the implementation?
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> I have read this: http://developer.apple.com/qa/qa2005/qa1405.html
> but it seems to address arguments of type "id", not sure it will work
> for simple integral types like float.
>
> Thanks!


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