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		heinrich5991 on Oct 13, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Why your first Rust FizzBuzz implementation may no... Is that allowed by the standard? (Passing a parameter to `printf` but not referencing it, in the non-"%d\n" case?)

kps on Oct 13, 2014 [–]

C11 §7.21.6.1

  If the format is exhausted while arguments remain, the excess
  arguments are evaluated (as always) but are otherwise ignored.

but that's just a consequence of stdarg, which does not require all supplied arguments to be consumed.

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