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From: brnstnd@kramden.acf.nyu.edu (Dan Bernstein)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.programmer
Subject: Re: ld -A EXAMPLE !
Message-ID: <24292:Sep1123:45:0490@kramden.acf.nyu.edu>
Date: 11 Sep 90 23:45:04 GMT
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In article <9780@discus.technion.ac.il> devil%techunix.bitnet@lilac.berkeley.edu (Gil Tene) writes:
  [ a program illustrating in detail the use of ld -A ]
> I have tested this on a Sun 3 running SunOs 4.0.3 and on a VAX
> running BSD. This program DOES NOT work on a sun-4, I have no
> idea why, but everyone out there is welcome to fix it up and
> let me know what the fix was...

Your execx() assumes that arguments are placed onto the stack in a
particular way. Move it into the main code, and use a proper execl(),
and everything works fine on a Sun 4.

Moral: Don't try to imitate varargs manually.

---Dan