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<LI><em>From</em>: Ben Greear <<A HREF="mailto:greear#cyberhighway,net">greear#cyberhighway,net</A>></LI>
<LI><em>Date</em>: Sun, 13 Jun 1999 13:46:25 -0700</LI>
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James Hu wrote:
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> On Sat, 12 Jun 1999 23:23:15 -0700, Ben Greear <greear#cyberhighway,net> wrote:
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> >I'm trying to pass a list of variable arguments through several methods.
> >For one reason or another, it's not working right, and I'm having a hard
> >time getting gdb or any other method to figure out why.
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> After you have retrieved the va_list from one function, you cannot
> pass that list to another that is expecting ``...''. You must pass the
> va_list to a function expecting a va_list.
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> See, for example, the answer to question 15.5 in the C-faq.
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> <A HREF="http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/C-faq/top.html">http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/C-faq/top.html</A>
Ahh, the v in front of the vprintf should have warned me!!
Thanks, that fixed the problem.
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