Re: [PATCH] Re: [ipchains] logging tcp/udp port numbers
Linus Torvalds (torvalds@transmeta.com)
Wed, 18 Nov 1998 17:10:16 -0800 (PST)
On Wed, 18 Nov 1998, Michael Meissner wrote:
>
> ISO C does not allow using va_arg with short types (char, short, float), so the
> ppc and sparc aren't broken, the code is wrong. Because the ppc and sparc are
> both big endian machines, what you are seeing is the upper 16 bits of the
> argument.
Ok, that's all I wanted to know - what the right answer was. The code has
been changed to do
(short) va_arg(args, int);
instead.
Linus
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