On Wed, Mar 23, 2005 at 01:52:24AM -0800, Matthew Dillon wrote:
> In anycase, it looks like GCC just breaks when you use the internal
> va_arg with a 'char' type. It is supposed to promote the argument
> to an int and then cast it to a char. Instead it generates, well,
> what you see.
Actually this is a bug in the code using va_arg. There is even a warning
flag for GCC to catch implicit int promotions for variadic functions,
because the variadic function has to use int.
FreeBSD correct that 4.5 years ago :)
Joerg