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From: rpaul@crow.UUCP (Rodian Paul)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Re: R2000 stack alignment question
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Date: 28 May 91 17:23:47 GMT
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> After some hours of digging through assembly code I've finally found out
> that varargs.h depends on the stack being aligned to an 8-byte boundary,
> and the C compiler does its utmost to keep it like that (unlike me).
> 

Don't use varargs(5) it is non-standard, use stdarg(5) instead if you want
portabilty via ANSI C.


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