[Gnu-arch-users] Re: posible issue on ia64 with va_args.

[Miles Bader]

Robert Collins <address@hidden> writes:
> u_char * is not promoted at all according to my va_arg info pages. But
> '0' is being promoted incorrectly, and when accessed by va_arg(ap, char
> *) results in a 0x60000000000 value. (I think I have the right number of
> 0's there) :}.
> 
> Anyone care to comment?

I'm confused -- if you're just passing in `0', it's going to get passed
as a plain int, which obviously isn't going to work very well if ints
are shorter than pointers (Are they?  It looks like maybe it's treating
random junk in the next word as part of the pointer).

I think you really have to cast 0 to a pointer type in a varargs call.

-Miles
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