lint vs varargs

[Philip A. Gross]

jcl at bdrc.UUCP (John C. Lusth) writes:

>I have a lint question. Why does lint complain about varargs stuff?

[...stuff deleted...]

>Plain old lint yields:

>    test.c(19): warning: possible pointer alignment problem

>Linting this beastie with the -c option yields:

>    test.c(18): warning: illegal pointer combination
>    test.c(19): warning: illegal pointer combination
>    test.c(19): warning: possible pointer alignment problem

>-- 
>John C. Lusth, Becton Dickinson Research Center, RTP, NC, bdrc!jcl at mcnc

John-

You may want to try placing the following comment before your function
which uses varargs.
/* VARARGS */
Most versions of lint will recognize this comment and then properly
ignore the undeclared parameters.  For example,

/* VARARGS */
char	*
make_string (astring, p1, p2, p3, p4, p5, p6, p7 p8 p9)
char	*astring;
{
	static	char	s[80];

	sprintf (s, astring, p1, p2, p3, p4, p5, p6, p7, p8, p9);

	return (s);
}

And thus a call to make_string as shown below:

print_stuff ("foo %s\n", "bar");

would produce:

foo bar

I hope this is of some assistance.  This function 'should' pass lint without
any errors.


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