>>>>> On Wed, 07 Aug 2002 10:54:15 -0700,
	Matt Thomas <matt@3am-software.com> said:

> Note that by calling vprintf twice, the program iterates twice
> through the va_list.  If the va_list wasn't being treated as a value
> by vprintf, the second call the vprintf would have gotten a trashed
> va_list.

If the libc is compiled by your modified ansi.h, that's true.
But if the libc is compiled by original ansi.h, that's not true,
because vprintf() copies the va_list argument internally
(to pass it to vfprintf()).

Is the libc compiled by your modified ansi.h?

> The assembler output is reasonably close.  I looked at it. 

Could you post the both output of the assembler?
Perhaps someone can confirm it. (not me, because I don't know ppc asm ;))

> Anyway, SVR4 ABI passes large structures (like va_list) by reference
> anyways.  So in either case a pointer is going to be passed.

But that doesn't mean passing a value and passing an address of
the value is ABI compatible. Because the latter modifies local
variable of caller function.
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soda