va_list question

["Bob Boz" <gcc_compiler at yahoo dot ca>]

First off, I hope this isn't off topic here.
Is the code below supposed to work in general? I mean regardless of the
compiler/platform (although the compiler used is gcc):

void f1 (const char *format, ...)
{
  int i=0;
  va_list args;
  va_start (args, format);
  f2 (format, (va_list *)args);
  i = va_arg (args, int);
  va_end (args);
}

void f2 (const char *format, va_list * arg)
{

   int j = va_arg (*arg, int);

}

My main point of worry is type casting 'arg' to 'va_list *' and then calling
*arg inside f2.
Specially that in gcc for ppc (now I can talk about compiler/platform)
va_list is an array.

Using gcc.2.95.3 the above code crashes. However, when I change it to :

void f1 (const char *format, ...)
{
  int i=0;
  va_list args;
  va_start (args, format);
  f2 (format, args);	<======
  i = va_arg (args, int);
  va_end (args);
}

void f2 (const char *format, va_list arg)
{
   va_list ap;
   __va_copy (ap, arg);

   int j = va_arg (ap, int);

}

Things seem to work ok. Although I beleive va_copying shouldn't be
necessary. This should work as well.

void f2 (const char *format, va_list arg)
{
   int j = va_arg (arg, int);
}

-B