On Tuesday 31 July 2007 09:11:05 Paul Cochrane wrote:

> Attached is a patch which allows the Sun C compiler on Solaris compile
> Parrot.  However, I'm *really* not sure if what I've done is correct.
> I've tested the patch on Solaris (not all tests pass), on Linux (all
> tests pass), and on Windows (all tests pass) but I'd like some code
> review to make absolutely sure that I've done the right thing here.

I don't think it's right.  If we have pointers to pointers to data we want to 
use, we have to dereference them fully; we can't stop at the first 
dereference and say "We're *closer* to the data; let's stop here."

> I'll apply the patch once a consensus has been reached.

Revert r19938 locally and try make testC again; I bet it fails horribly.

-- c

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