ultrix 4.0 cc bug (serious -- varargs)

George Hartzell hartzell at boulder.Colorado.EDU
Tue Sep 25 00:28:11 AEST 1990


In article <1990Sep22.175547.3963 at cunixf.cc.columbia.edu>, reha at cunixf (Reha Elci) writes:
>
>For any routine that uses varargs as its input mechanism solely (that is
>va_alist as the only argument) and the first argument is a double varargs
>pulls bad value off of stack:

This is an acknowledged problem on the real MIPS machines (RISC/os),
so I guess that it carries over to the DEC RISC systems.  Their only
suggestion is to use the stdarg mechanism, which works, instead of
varargs.

g.

George Hartzell			                  (303) 492-4535
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