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To add to the other answers, the func(arg, ...) syntax first developed in C++, and then was incorporated into the ANSI C standard, sometime between 1984 and 1988.
My copy of The C Programmers Handbook, AT&T Bell Laboratories, February 1984 is based on K&R 1st edition (published in 1978). It discusses printf and scanf in detail, and states
The ...
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It was a pointer arithmetic hack, later abstracted away into a more portable form in some version of Unix; even later, it was adapted into ANSI C.
In many languages (like Pascal for example), variadic functions, if they were included at all, had to be handled as special cases. B, which was the predecessor to C, did not have to, because B did not require ...
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For the second part of the question - the first standardized support was in ANSI C, which explicitly considered issues of portability and implementability with non-stack calling conventions.
This appears to me to be pure invention of the standardization committee, i.e., adding something to the language that did not exist before, but of course there could ...
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You get SIGPIPE only if you try to write to a pipe that has no readers anymore. The idea is that typical unix processes run to produce output. If the output is going to a pipe, but no one is reading from a pipe, the process got useless and may be killed.
You never get SIGPIPE reading from an input pipe. If you read from an input pipe that has no writers ...
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