# New Ticket Created by James Keenan
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The description for Parrot configuration step class auto::va_ptr
states that its purpose is: "Tests which kind of PARROT_VA_TO_VAPTR
to use."
Assuming that the test does not die, there are only two possible
results: 'ppc' and 'x86'. Whichever result is achieved is assigned
both to the step's result and to Parrot::Configure object key
'va_ptr_type'.
When I run this on Linux, I get 'x86', as I would expect. But when I
configure on my iBook, I *also* get 'x86':
Test the type of va_ptr (this test is likely to
segfault)..............x86.
But I'm clearly running on the powerpc version of Darwin:
Summary of my perl5 (revision 5 version 8 subversion 8)
configuration:
Platform:
osname=darwin, osvers=8.7.0, archname=darwin-2level
uname='darwin macintosh.local 8.7.0 darwin kernel version
8.7.0: fri may 26
15:20:53 pdt 2006; root:xnu-792.6.76.obj~1release_ppc power macintosh
powerpc '
....
Even though I have no idea what a va_ptr is, I would still expect the
result of this step on my iBook to be 'ppc'. Why isn't it?
Thank you very much.
kid51
