[MUD-Dev] Re: How to debug a method taking a variable list of arguments?

[Ben Greear <greear#cyberhighway,net>]

James Hu wrote:
> 
> On Sat, 12 Jun 1999 23:23:15 -0700, Ben Greear <greear#cyberhighway,net> wrote:
> 
> >I'm trying to pass a list of variable arguments through several methods.
> >For one reason or another, it's not working right, and I'm having a hard
> >time getting gdb or any other method to figure out why.
> 
> After you have retrieved the va_list from one function, you cannot
> pass that list to another that is expecting ``...''.  You must pass the
> va_list to a function expecting a va_list.
> 
> See, for example, the answer to question 15.5 in the C-faq.
> 
>   http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/C-faq/top.html

Ahh, the v in front of the vprintf should have warned me!!

Thanks, that fixed the problem.


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