Re: Build break - port amd64 - libcurses tests

[David Laight <david%l8s.co.uk@localhost>]

On Mon, Apr 11, 2011 at 02:47:22PM +1000, matthew green wrote:
> 
> something like this might work?  i'm still getting to building it.

I don't think it does ...
Although i386 passes all args on stack - so the va stuff just
parses a list of pointers/integers - and such a list can be
generated by other code, this isn't true of many other architectures.

amd64, for example, always passes the first 6 integer/pointer args
in specific registers (and the first few fp args in others).
So the va_arg() code is non-trivial and has to know which register
or stack location to return next for the argument type requested.

        David

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