Re: XView bug/PPC machines available for developers?

[Michael Schmitz <schmitz@mail.biophys.uni-duesseldorf.de>]

> > XView probably does a few weird things with varargs there. Is there
> > anything special on powerpc to be careful about regarding varargs with
> > glibc 2.1?
> 
> I ported XView several years ago on an M88k machine. Yep, they do
> looooooooots of weird, non-portable and non-standard things with the
> varargs.
> Unfortunately, I don't remember the exact details, but basically I
> modified
> each varargs using function to use only the standard C features. They
> aren't
> that many, all the stuff is doable for a day.

One caveat there: PPC varargs is weird, to say the least. More weird than
m88k from what I can see. 

I'll try to look into that, I just had a similar case of non portable
varargs usage on PPC so maybe that's similar. 

	Michael