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Imagine you have a function like this...

void foo(uchar a,uchar b,...) {
  va_list args;

  va_start(args,b);
  do_something_with(va_arg(args,int));
  va_end(args)
}

On the Sparc, at any rate, such a function will be struck dead with a
wand of bus error.  &b turns out to be an odd address, and so va_start
initializes args to be (effectively) &b + 4, which is also an odd
address.  Bleah.

Now don't ask me how &b turns out to be odd..

The temporary work-around to this is to put an int argument first, and
va_start off of that, which then breaks ANSI compliance.

-GAWollman

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