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From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
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Subject: Re: [Martha M. Gray: Availability of NIST-PCTS:151-2]
To: bde@zeta.org.au (Bruce Evans)
Date: Mon, 18 Nov 1996 17:14:25 -0700 (MST)
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In-Reply-To: <199611171916.GAA24742@godzilla.zeta.org.au> from "Bruce Evans" at Nov 18, 96 06:16:21 am
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> Most of the tests fail under FreeBSD due to bugs in the tests and good
> error checking in FreeBSD.  The behaviour of va_arg(ap, type) is undefined
> if `type' is not compatible with the type of the actual next argument (as
> promoted according to the default promotions).  The tests are careful to
> avoid this problem in some cases but not all.

Could you please forward your changes to the PCTS, if you are sure of
them, back to Martha?


					Terry Lambert
					terry@lambert.org
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