[patch] Warn on va_start() when called with a reference parameter

Nico Weber thakis at chromium.org
Fri May 24 09:54:06 PDT 2013


On Fri, May 24, 2013 at 9:23 AM, Jordan Rose <jordan_rose at apple.com> wrote:

> Your test case is named .cc (rather than .cpp) and as such is not getting
> run...which is important because it's actually broken.
>

9_9 Fixed, thanks.


> All of va_start is implementation-defined behavior anyway, yes? I guess
> it's still a good warning, though.
>

http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2005/n1905.pdf 18.7p3
explicitly calls this (and some other things) out as undefined, not
implementation-defined.


>
> Jordan
>
>
> On May 23, 2013, at 22:07 , Nico Weber <thakis at chromium.org> wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > it's undefined behavior to call va_start() with a reference parameter.
> It happens to work fine with clang, but blows up with other compilers (e.g.
> msvs), so this patch adds a warning for it. It also moves 2 other existing
> warnings behind the new -Wvarargs flag.
> >
> > Ok?
> >
> > Nico
>
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