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Re: rebuilding fixincludes - good news, bad news and RFE
- To: Zack Weinberg <zack at rabi dot columbia dot edu>
- Subject: Re: rebuilding fixincludes - good news, bad news and RFE
- From: Jeffrey A Law <law at upchuck dot cygnus dot com>
- Date: Wed, 07 Apr 1999 02:04:40 -0600
- cc: mrs at wrs dot com (Mike Stump), ddsinc09 at ix dot netcom dot com, egcs at egcs dot cygnus dot com
- Reply-To: law at cygnus dot com
In message <199904061739.NAA12498@blastula.phys.columbia.edu>you write:
> On Tue, 6 Apr 1999 10:31:27 -0700, Mike Stump wrote:
> >> Date: 6 Apr 1999 14:31:03 -0000
> >> From: korbb@egcs.cygnus.com
> >
> >> The reason is that all sprintf functions require that you know the
> >> number of arguments at compile time.
> >
> >False. vsprintf doesn't need to know.
>
> I think he wants to construct a va_list by hand instead of getting it
> from va_start. There is no portable way to do that.
Yea. To put it mildly. I wonder if anyone remembers gdb's attempt to build
va_list thingies in a portable way. What a mess it was....
jeff