From: Thomas Dickey <dickey AT saltmine DOT radix DOT net>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: Creation of Curses Library using the DOS Cross-Compiler (DOS-GCC)
Date: 24 Jun 2002 13:53:29 GMT
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Frank Krauss <fmfkrauss AT mindspring DOT com> wrote:

> During the assembly of the program "popmenu.c", which is part of libcurses.a,
> I got the following error messages:

> src/popmenu.c: In function `scrollmenul':
> src/popmenu.c:49: `va_start' used in function with fixed args
> src/popmenu.c: In function `popmenul':
> src/popmenu.c:63: `va_start' used in function with fixed args

it's not specific to ncurses. va_start tells the compiler how to deal
with a variable argument list, e.g., if your function were declared

	int foo(char *a, ...);

> Would someone be able to tell me what I should do in order to take care of
> this problem?

> Thanking everyone in advance for any assistance you can give me in this matter.

> Yours truly,

> Frank Krauss
>        

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