https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=24310

          Issue ID: 24310
           Summary: ImportC: varargs from Microsoft header incompatible
                    with va_start
           Product: D
           Version: D2
          Hardware: All
                OS: Windows
            Status: NEW
          Keywords: ImportC
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P3
         Component: dmd
          Assignee: nobody@puremagic.com
          Reporter: dkorpel@live.nl

In Phobos' etc/c/zlib/gzwrite.c file there is a workaround:

---
// needed on Win64 - MS __va_start intrinsic not supported by importC yet
#if __IMPORTC__
    __builtin_va_start(va, format);
#else
    va_start(va, format);
#endif
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See https://github.com/dlang/phobos/pull/8865#issuecomment-1862006408

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Argh, the Microsoft headers use something like this (`vadefs.h`) for x86_64:

```c
void __cdecl __va_start(va_list* , ...);
#define __crt_va_start_a(ap, x) ((void)(__va_start(&ap, x)))
```

The signature of their intrinsic isn't compatible with druntime's `va_start` (which takes the first param as `out` ref, not as explicit pointer), so I sadly don't see a way to handle this in druntime's `__builtins.di` (or `importc.h`).
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