Use of va_arg function

[Alexandre Oliva]

On Jul 11, 2001, Carla Nunes <carlanunes@yahoo.com> wrote:

> I got an error message saying that the type I passed as parameter
> (sqlint16) is promoted to another type (int) when passed through
> '...'

GCC is right.  It worked with another compiler out of pure luck.
Since signed integer types shorter than int are promoted to int when
passed through `...', you can't expect to get a short back from the
va_list.

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