Thread: FreeBSD 5.1, gcc 3.3.3 and va_list

I've tried looking around and I couldn't find it anywhere.

I have some programs I wrote that use va_list (va_start and va_end too obviously) but it says that it is incompatible with this version of gcc and I had to use stdarg.

I've basically got this...

Code:

#ifdef USE_VA_ARGS
    va_list *var;
#else
    char *p1, *p2, *p3, *p4... *p11;
#endif

then using va_start and va_end later or p1 = etc. But there seems to be somewhere where it is carrying over some values from an old pointer somewhere and I cannot for the life of me find out where. The code is way too long to paste and it's like looking for a needle in a haystack. Just wondering if someone could give me some advice, as I don't like using lots and lots of pointers in lots of functions. I don't want to downgrade gcc but it's looking like the only option.

Any help would be extremely appreciated.

Thanks

Try writing a small program which has the same problem then

just include <stdarg.h>
you can use new variadic functions almost just like the older ones...
remove va_dcl if you have used it at
function declarations and va_start takes one more argument more.

Code:

void
my_print ( char *format, ... ) {
    ......
    va_start ( args, format ); // va_list *, (char *) arg. pointer where list reading should begin
    ......
}

http://www.linuxselfhelp.com/gnu/gli...34.html#SEC667

Thanks for that.

Re: Salem...

I was going to put up a simplified version of it, except I realised my error, it was just sloppyness on my behalf, not initialising the pointers, so it was keeping some old info and such

Thanks again guys

Thanks for that