On Sat, 28 Feb 2004, "Madhvesh R S" <madhvesh.s@ap.sony.com> wrote:
> I noticed that stdarg.h defines the type va_list, it doesnot 
> define a type _BSD_VA_LIST_.

$ grep _BSD_VA_LIST_  $(find /usr/include/)  \
	|grep define \
	|cut -f1 -d: \
	|sort -u
/usr/include//alpha/ansi.h

I think you'll find similar. ;-)

> Is there a reason to use _BSD_VA_LIST_?

As you can see, it allows use of different compilers.  

--jkl