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Johnathan Gratch (gratch) wrote:
: Hi, I am having core dumps when using varargs with gcc on a sparc20
: running sun4.1.3.  I notice a previous posting with a similar problem
: but no responses.  The problem doesn't seem to occur on other machines 
: or when using other compilers.

: int var_fun(va_alist)
:      va_dcl
: {
:     va_list ap;

:     short   arg1;
:     double  arg2;

:     va_start(ap);

:     arg1 = va_arg(ap, short);      /* this value is now zero */
                        ^^^^^
                        This is illegal.  Variable arguments, like
			arguments to a function with no prototype in
			scope, undergo `promotion' so you can't use
			`char', `short', or `float' here.

BTW, why not use ANSI-style variable argument lists (stdarg.h)?

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