Hi, Forgive me if this is expected. I am probably abusing dlsym behavior on other systems.
(gdb) p sprintf $1 = {<text variable, no debug info>} 0x10044b300 <sprintf> (gdb) p (void*)dlsym(NULL, "sprintf") $2 = (void *) 0x7708a738 <sprintf> The test driver I use for http://www.gnu.org/software/lightning calls dlsym in its pseudo assembler to resolve address of functions. If using dlsym in the above example, it will return the address of some function that does not handle float arguments, and %f format will just print "f". (gdb) x/i sprintf 0x10044b300 <sprintf>: jmpq *0x16026(%rip) # 0x10046132c <__imp_sprintf> (gdb) x/i 0x7708a738 0x7708a738 <sprintf>: mov %rsp,%rax Since dlsym is only used to write test cases, at first I should use a pseudo patch like this: ---%<--- #if __CYGWIN__ /* FIXME kludge to pass varargs test case, otherwise, * will not print/scan float values */ if (strcmp(parser.string + 1, "sprintf") == 0) value = sprintf; else if (strcmp(parser.string + 1, "sscanf") == 0) value = sscanf; else #endif { value = dlsym(DL_HANDLE, parser.string + 1); if ((string = dlerror())) error("%s", string); } ---%<--- Thanks, Paulo -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple