On Fri, Mar 31, 2017 at 4:06 PM, Dibyendu Majumdar <mobile@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi, > > On 31 March 2017 at 14:47, Dibyendu Majumdar <mobile@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> I am investigating a failure in this test: >> >> #include <stdarg.h> >> #include <stdlib.h> >> #include <stdio.h> >> >> void error_message(const char *fmt, ...) { >> va_list argp; >> va_start(argp, fmt); > > I think this might be because the macro __builtin_va_start() is being > defined in sparse but this doesn't match what gets defined by gcc? I > see this in sparse: > > #define __builtin_va_start(a,b) ((a) = (__builtin_va_list)(&(b))) > > but if I run above code through gcc then preprocessed output says: > > __builtin_va_start(argp, fmt); > Current support for vaarg is more faked than anything else. There is just the minimum needed to be able to do correct parsing of code using it but there is nothing behind it. -- Luc -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-sparse" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html