Subject: Re: pkg/5618: libscsi fails to build on alpha.
To: Tim Rightnour <root@garbled.net>
From: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>
List: netbsd-bugs
Date: 06/22/1998 12:22:47
On Fri, 19 Jun 1998 16:10:23 -0700 (MST) 
 Tim Rightnour <root@garbled.net> wrote:

 > Then I guess I'm at a total loss for what to do with this.  The code almost
 > looks like its passing va_lists around as baggage, and not even using them.  So
 > I guess my question here is.. what exactly *is* the proper fix, and how does it
 > work under freebsd in the first place if it's broken?

The stuff it does w/ varargs is just evil, and happens to work on an i386
because of the varargs implementation used there.

libscsi needs a complete rewrite.

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