On Sun, Jan 20, 2002 at 03:18:29AM +0000, Bastien Nocera wrote: > On Sun, 2002-01-20 at 00:08, Gergely Nagy wrote: > > Hi! > > > > I've been trying to track this down, but my knowledge of PowerPC is > > sadly lacking. The problem is that ratpoison crashes on `C-t a' on ppc > > (on i386, it works fine). From the backtrace, I couldn't figure out > > where the problem lies. Key handling should be OK, as other commands > > appear to work fine. marked_message_printf should be OK too, as that > > one prints the initial greeting message, which works. > > > > There is probably something I don't see, and is obvious to anyone who > > knows what he is doing.. > > > > Can anyone lend me a hand? > > As you'll see on the backtrace (screenshot of one in fact), your problem > lies with yet another ill use of va_args. Check the list for the reasons > why it crashes and how to fix it. > > (I don't understand it myself to be truthful, if somebody with the > knowledge could explain better...).
I don't have knowledge, but I have pointers, which is almost as good: man va_start /usr/share/doc/glibc-doc/html/chapters_35.html#SEC687 The upshot is that powerpc compilers enforce the correct usage of varargs, where most i386 compilers do not. It's not really a powerpc specific problem. -- *------v--------- Installing Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 --------v------* | <http://www.debian.org/releases/woody/installmanual> | | debian-imac (potato): <http://debian-imac.sourceforge.net> | | Chris Tillman [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | May the Source be with you | *----------------------------------------------------------------*
