hello, please try the little program at the end. my naive assumption was that it will print "hello world" two times.
if compiled with gcc 3.4, 4.1, 4.2 or 4.3 for i386, it will print "hello
world" two times all right.
however, if compiled with 3.3, 3.4, 4.1 or 4.3 for amd64, the second
time it will print "hello @[EMAIL PROTECTED]" (garbage).
it seems that the gp_offset field of the va struct gets modified by
someone, so the second vprintf prints garbage:
vp (fmt=0x400672 "hello %s\n", args=0x7fff0e83aec0) at v.c:6
6 vprintf(fmt, args);
(gdb) display *args
1: *args = {gp_offset = 8, fp_offset = 48, overflow_arg_area =
0x7fff0e83afa0, reg_save_area = 0x7fff0e83aee0}
(gdb) n
hello world
7 vprintf(fmt, args);
1: *args = {gp_offset = 16, fp_offset = 48, overflow_arg_area =
0x7fff0e83afa0, reg_save_area = 0x7fff0e83aee0}
i don't know whether this is a gcc issue or a libc issue, but i suspect
that it's a bug. please clarify.
i have a debian etch amd64 system, glibc is 2.3.6.
searching for "gcc glibc variadic argument bug" didn't give any relevant
pages.
regards, peter
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#include <stdarg.h>
#include <stdio.h>
void vp(const char* fmt, va_list args)
{
vprintf(fmt, args);
vprintf(fmt, args);
}
void p(const char* fmt, ...)
{
va_list args;
va_start(args, fmt);
vp(fmt, args);
va_end(args);
}
int main()
{
p("hello %s\n", "world");
}
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