From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Date: Fri, 27 May 2005 18:13:27 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fix ptrdiff_t vs. int
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0505271112240.17402@ppc970.osdl.org>
In-Reply-To: <42975C1F.8070102@oberhumer.com>



On Fri, 27 May 2005, Markus F.X.J. Oberhumer wrote:
> 
> Many thanks. BTW, this is probably completely irrelevant on all 
> real-world machines and calling conventions, but still, lying on the 
> number of arguments in vararg-functions is not my favourite practice.

Only using a subset is guaranteed to work - it's not about "real-world 
machines", it's about the fact that it's not a C compiler any more if it 
doesn't work.

		Linus