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From: Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de>
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Subject: Re: The "black magic" of ioctl
Date: Sun, 24 Oct 2010 19:56:59 +0200
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* Frank J. Lhota:

> Actually, you can call a varargs function such as ioctl from
> Ada. Declare each ioctl profile that you need, e.g.

Perhaps it seems to work for you, but this is not portable.  There are
popular targets where the varargs calling convention is markedly
different from the non-varargs calling convention, such as amd64.
It might still work by accident, but all bets are off, really.