Subject: Re: 4.99.36 very unstable for me(tm)
To: None <current-users@NetBSD.org>
From: Thomas Klausner <wiz@NetBSD.org>
List: current-users
Date: 11/19/2007 17:15:38
On Mon, Nov 19, 2007 at 01:08:43PM +0100, Joerg Sonnenberger wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 18, 2007 at 07:31:56PM +0100, Thomas Klausner wrote:
> > For perl, I extracted the problematic code from the configure
> > script. The attached program prints "that's all right, then" on
> > NetBSD-2.0.2/i386, but dumps core on 4.99.36/amd64. There is one
> > compilation warning on amd64, which I don't see on the older i386:
>
> I don't think this test is correct. Copying va_list directly is
> certainly not portable. E.g. it should use va_copy.
It is the test "if va_copy is needed".
Thomas