Re: Variable function arguments and the stack

[David Daney <ddaney at avtrex dot com>]

Robert Kiesling wrote:
> I trying to write a function that calls libc functions with
> variable arguments - for example, scanf.  I would like to do
> this by pushing the arguments onto the stack and then calling 
> the function, something like this.  (This code is for an x86
> machine.)
>
> static long long int scalar_args[512];
> static char *ptr_args[512][BUFSIZE];

Use libffi which ships with GCC.  Doing things like this is what it was 
designed for.

David Daney