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How to use varargs in combination with function pointers in C on Win64?

Consider the following C program:

#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdarg.h>

typedef void (callptr)();

static void fixed(void *something, double val)
{
    printf("%f\n", val);
}

static void dynamic(void *something, ...)
{
    va_list args;
    va_start(args, something);
    double arg = va_arg(args, double);
    printf("%f\n", arg);
}

int main()
{
    double x = 1337.1337;
    callptr *dynamic_func = (callptr *) &dynamic;
    dynamic_func(NULL, x);
    callptr *fixed_func = (callptr *) &fixed;
    fixed_func(NULL, x);

    printf("%f\n", x);
}

Basically, the idea is to store a function with variable arguments in a function pointer of a generic type. For comparison, I included another function with a fixed list of arguments. Now let's see what happens when you run on x86 Linux, amd64 Linux, Win32, and Win64:

$ gcc -m32 -o test test.c
$ file test
test: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386, version 1 (SYSV), dynamically linked (uses shared libs), for GNU/Linux 2.6.9, not stripped
$ ./test
1337.133700
1337.133700
1337.133700

$ gcc -o test test.c
$ file test
test: ELF 64-bit LSB executable, x86-64, version 1 (SYSV), dynamically linked (uses shared libs), for GNU/Linux 2.6.9, not stripped
$ ./test
1337.133700
1337.133700
1337.133700

C:\>gcc -o test.exe test.c
C:\>file test.exe
test.exe: PE32 executable for MS Windows (console) Intel 80386 32-bit
C:\>test.exe
1337.133700
1337.133700
1337.133700

C:\>x86_64-w64-mingw32-gcc -o test.exe test.c
C:\>file test.exe
test.exe: PE32+ executable for MS Windows (console) Mono/.Net assembly
C:\>test.exe
0.000000
1337.133700
1337.133700

Why does a dynamic function get a null value from a list of variable arguments on Win64, but not in any other configuration? Is something like this even legal? I suggested that this is because the compiler did not complain.

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((void (*)(void *, ...))dynamic_func)(NULL, x);
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...

typedef void myfunc_t(void *, ...);

...

myfunc_t dynamic;
void dynamic(void * something, ...)
{

...

}

...

int main()
{
    double x = 1337.1337;
    myfunc_t *callnow;
    callnow = &dynamic;
    callnow(NULL, x);

    printf("%f\n", x);
}
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