va_start, va_list, va_end

/*-----------------------------------------------------
SCRNSIZE.C -- Displays screen size in a message box
(c) Charles Petzold, 1998
-----------------------------------------------------*/
#include <windows.h>
#include <tchar.h>
#include <stdio.h>
int CDECL MessageBoxPrintf (TCHAR * szCaption, TCHAR * szFormat, ...)
{
TCHAR
szBuffer [1024] ;
va_list pArgList ;
// The va_start macro (defined in STDARG.H) is usually equivalent to:
// pArgList = (char *) &szFormat + sizeof (szFormat) ;
va_start (pArgList, szFormat) ;// The last argument to wvsprintf points to the arguments
_vsntprintf (szBuffer, sizeof (szBuffer) / sizeof (TCHAR),
szFormat, pArgList) ;
// The va_end macro just zeroes out pArgList for no good reason
va_end (pArgList) ;
return MessageBox (NULL, szBuffer, szCaption, 0) ;
}