Re: Building mozart-gtk on powerpc [request for help]
On Tue, 24 Aug 2004, Daniel Kobras wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 24, 2004 at 06:21:57PM +0200, Kevin Glynn wrote:
> > fyi, it is because va_list is declared as a one-element array of
> > structs on powerpc, unlike other architectures so code like:
> >
> > va_list Arg4 = (va_list) OZ_getForeignPointer((*(_OZ_LOC[(4)])));
> >
> > fails on powerpc, because you can't cast to an array.
>
> And you may not assign to a va_list. Use va_copy() instead to be
> portable.
Yep - that's got to be the number one porting problem on powerpc :-) But
is this still an issue, with varargs being superseded by stdarg these
days? Last time I checked I could not find the funny va_list declaration
in the gcc headers anymore.
Michael
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