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-/*
- Copyright (c) 2004-2005 The Trustees of Indiana University and Indiana
-                         University Research and Technology
-                         Corporation.  All rights reserved.
- Copyright (c) 2004-2005 The University of Tennessee and The University
-                         of Tennessee Research Foundation.  All rights
-                         reserved.
- Copyright (c) 2004-2005 High Performance Computing Center Stuttgart, 
-                         University of Stuttgart.  All rights reserved.
- Copyright (c) 2004-2005 The Regents of the University of California.
-                         All rights reserved.
- $COPYRIGHT$
- 
- Additional copyrights may follow
- 
- $HEADER$
- */
-
-#ifndef OMPI_VAR_ARGS_H
-#define OMPI_VAR_ARGS_H
-
-/* To include the right thing for va_list, va_start, va_end and friends */
-/* Windows and __STDC__ and other c++ compilers require stdarg.h else varargs */
-
-#if (defined(__STDC__) && __STDC__) || defined(__cplusplus) || defined(c_plusplus) || defined(WIN32)
-#include<stdio.h>
-#include<stdarg.h>
-#else
-#include<varargs.h>
-#endif
-
-
-#if (defined(__STDC__) && __STDC__) || defined(__cplusplus) || defined(c_plusplus) || defined(WIN32)
-#define VA_START(list, v) va_start(list, v);
-#else 
-#define VA_START(list,v) va_start(list); 
-#endif
-
-#endif /* OMPI_VARARGS_H */