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From: Bart Schaefer <schaefer@brasslantern.com>
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Comments: In reply to Peter Stephenson <Peter.Stephenson@csr.com>
 "Re: Test failure with negative substring offsets" (May 23,  4:56pm)
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On May 23,  4:56pm, Peter Stephenson wrote:
}
} stdarg doesn't know the arguments need to be converted to integers to
} fit the size being claimed in the printf prototype.

Er, wouldn't it therefore have been better to change the prototype to
expect a long?

That doesn't affect the rest of the paranoia.