From: Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de>
Subject: Re: Variable arguments magic in Ada to C code
Date: Thu, 15 Aug 2002 12:09:27 +0200
Date: 2002-08-15T10:09:10+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87k7mso2lk.fsf@deneb.enyo.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: slrnalkonl.oj.lutz@taranis.iks-jena.de
lutz@iks-jena.de (Lutz Donnerhacke) writes:
>>>>The calling convention of a C function which expects a variable number
>>>>of arguements can differ considerably from one which does not.
>>>
>>> This would cause major problems when compiling legal C code without
>>> advanced prototypes for such function.
>>
>>Yes, these problems exist. So what?
>
> I can't believe such a brain damage. There must be something really huge
> hitting and smashing the inventors head.
Quite a lot of GNU C code breaks when compiled with a conforming
C compiler because prototypes do not match old-style function
definitions (I'm not sure if prototypes were allowed at all for
old-style function definitions before C99).
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Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-08-05 23:47 Variable arguments magic in Ada to C code Andreas Almroth
[not found] ` <slrnakv5v0.p2.lutz@taranis.iks-jena.de>
2002-08-14 10:01 ` Florian Weimer
2002-08-14 11:34 ` Lutz Donnerhacke
2002-08-14 13:13 ` Dale Stanbrough
2002-08-14 13:59 ` Florian Weimer
2002-08-14 14:02 ` Lutz Donnerhacke
2002-08-15 10:09 ` Florian Weimer [this message]
2002-08-18 22:43 ` David Thompson
[not found] ` <87ptww7yj6.fsf@almroth.com>
[not found] ` <slrnal1l8s.pj.lutz@taranis.iks-jena.de>
[not found] ` <dstanbro-CDC252.20502007082002@news-server.bigpond.net.au>
2002-08-14 9:05 ` Lutz Donnerhacke
[not found] ` <87vg6nj8jd.fsf@almroth.com>
2002-08-16 19:41 ` David Thompson
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