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From: "David J. Fiander" <davidf@golem.waterloo.on.ca>
To: Scott Merrilees <Sm@cerberus.bhpese.oz.au>
Cc: rc@hawkwind.utcs.toronto.edu
Subject: Re: rc under hp-ux
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 16:57:37 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <9301121657.aa22344@golem.waterloo.on.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 12 Jan 93 02:12:06 EST." <199301120712.AA24909@cerberus.bhpese.oz.au>

>From:  	Scott Merrilees <Sm@cerberus.bhpese.oz.au>
>We have aquired a hp 9000/817 running hp-ux A.09.00, and I started
>my usual porting sequence, compile rc.  Unfortunately, it doesn't
>work.  More specifically stdargs/varargs seems to be playing up.
>Compiling -O causes the compiler to barf on print.c, compiling -g
>completes, but then execution results in core dumps.

If I had to guess I would say that this is the fact that rc
tries to save a va_list in a struct and pass it around.  I had
the same problem on another system.  I don't know if what rc is
doing is legit. according to ANSI, but I also don't quite know
how to change it so that it doesn't do that.

- David


  reply	other threads:[~1993-01-12 22:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
1993-01-12  7:12 Scott Merrilees
1993-01-12 21:57 ` David J. Fiander [this message]
1993-01-13  0:27   ` Scott Merrilees
1993-01-13  6:06 Scott Merrilees

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