IRIX 5 needs a fixincludes hack

[Bruce Korb]

files  = stdio.h;
select = '(printf\(.*), /\* va_list \*/ char \*'
c_fix  = format;
c_fix_arg = "%1, __gnuc_va_list";

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Alexandre Oliva [ mailto:aoliva@redhat.com ]
> Sent: Sunday, March 11, 2001 11:08 AM
> To: Bruce Korb
> Cc: gcc-bugs@gcc.gnu.org
> Subject: IRIX 5 needs a fixincludes hack
> 
> 
> IRIX 5.2's stdio.h declares the following functions:
> 
> /usr/include/stdio.h:extern int vfprintf(FILE *, const char 
> *, /* va_list */ char *);
> /usr/include/stdio.h:extern int vprintf(const char *, /* 
> va_list */ char *);
> /usr/include/stdio.h:extern int vsprintf(char *, const char 
> *, /* va_list */ char *);
> 
> I believe at least IRIX 5.3 is similar.  The idea seems to be to avoid
> depending on va_list.
> 
> This is fine in C, because void* and char* are interchangeable, but
> not in C++, because va_list is void*, that can't be implicitly
> converted to char*.
> 
> I suggest that we arrange for fixincl to modify these headers, instead
> of arranging for gcc to set va_list to char* on IRIX 5.  Bruce, might
> I ask you to come up with such a fixincl hack?  I'm sure it would take
> you just a minute, whereas for me it would take a while :-(
> 
> Thanks in advance :-)
> 
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