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Subject: Re: amusing problem with varargs
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On Fri, 12 Sep 1997, Ron G. Minnich wrote:

> will it fail on other freebsd's, esp. 3.x? 
> 
> The problem is in the following assertion (from stdarg.h)
> #define va_arg(ap, type) \
>         ((type *)(ap += sizeof(type) < sizeof(int) ? \
>                 (abort(), 0) : sizeof(type)))[-1]
> 
> It fails because mode_t is 16 bits. 

This is fixed in 2.2-STABLE and 3.0-CURRENT. See
http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/sys/i386/include/stdarg.h

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