[perl #31029] [PATCH] IRIX64 (big-endian): avoid desperate casts

[Jarkko Hietaniemi]

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Things like this

(int*)&something_not_int

just aren't cool. The attached patch does a horrible hack for
build_nativecall.pl to introduce the necessary temp variables.

With this patch IRIX64 is now passing all but one of the nci.t.
A separate report on that will follow.

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[Dan Sugalski]

At 1:52 PM -0700 8/9/04, Jarkko Hietaniemi (via RT) wrote:
>Things like this
>
> (int*)&something_not_int
>
>just aren't cool. The attached patch does a horrible hack for
>build_nativecall.pl to introduce the necessary temp variables.
>
>With this patch IRIX64 is now passing all but one of the nci.t.
>A separate report on that will follow.

Applied, thanks. (With some chagrin, as I'm responsible for that
particular monstrisity)
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Dan

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