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From: Leisner.Henr@xerox.com (Marty)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: stdarg vs. vararg, doprintf problems.
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Date: 10 Feb 89 01:53:41 GMT
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Should Minix support the Ansi stdarg mechanism in addition to varargs.h
(which it has now)?

I recently tried to bring up the  doprintf formatter on a TI34010 and had
problems figuring out which way the stack went (I used a truly bizarre C
compiling which has uses two stacks -- a call stack and an argument stack)
-- it seems easier to rewrite doprintf with stdarg.h (supplied with the TI
GSP C compiler) than attempt to figure out the stacks (on top of that, I
couldn't pass doprintf through this C compiler).  This worked well.

Also, the printf family is supposed to return the number of characters
printed according to ANSI.  The minix routines  return nothing.  

What's the status on ansizing the Minix libraries?

marty
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