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## 13 Variable Argument Lists

The `printf` family of functions is defined to accept a variable number of arguments, rather than a fixed argument list. You can define your own functions with a variable argument list, by using macro definitions from either `stdarg.h` (for compatibility with ANSI C) or from `varargs.h` (for compatibility with a popular convention prior to ANSI C).