[pacman-dev] [PATCH] Fix segfault on x86_64 when using UseSyslog

Allan McRae allan at archlinux.org
Fri Aug 8 23:30:03 EDT 2008


Dan McGee wrote:
> Due to differences in handling va_list between i686 and x86_64, this bug
> can only be seen on x86_64. va_list usage is not allowed but we had been
> getting away with it. See
> http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-programming/2008-02/msg00005.html
> for details and explanation.
>
> This fixes FS#11096.


So this was a UseSysLog thing.  That would explain why I couldn't 
replicate when I tried.  I will test this later today.

Allan





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