Re: must use gcc builtin?

[David Holland <dholland-tech%netbsd.org@localhost>]

On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 07:38:42AM +0200, Alan Barrett wrote:
 > Perhaps a va_list_to_sequential_memory() conversion interface could
 > be provided.  It would take a va_list, copy it into the sort of
 > memory buffer that you have advocated, and return a pointer to it,
 > and a size.  Or it could skip the copying if the va_list is already
 > in that sort of format.  There would probably also have to be a way
 > of freeing the memory.

That won't work, or at least not easily, because you'd need to know
how many arguments were passed. And their types.

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David A. Holland
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