From: David Daney <ddaney@avtrex.com>
To: Robert Kiesling <kiesling@earthlink.net>
Cc: gcc-help@gcc.gnu.org
Subject: Re: Variable function arguments and the stack
Date: Thu, 06 Dec 2007 00:11:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <47573DE4.7000508@avtrex.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1J04AO-0002wi-77@owl.gateway.2wire.net>
Robert Kiesling wrote:
> I trying to write a function that calls libc functions with
> variable arguments - for example, scanf. I would like to do
> this by pushing the arguments onto the stack and then calling
> the function, something like this. (This code is for an x86
> machine.)
>
> static long long int scalar_args[512];
> static char *ptr_args[512][BUFSIZE];
Use libffi which ships with GCC. Doing things like this is what it was
designed for.
David Daney
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-12-06 0:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-12-06 0:00 Robert Kiesling
2007-12-06 0:11 ` David Daney [this message]
2007-12-06 0:41 ` Robert Kiesling
2007-12-09 14:30 Robert Kiesling
2007-12-15 8:30 ` Andrew Haley
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