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Date: Mon, 9 Aug 2004 17:20:41 -0400
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Subject: Re: [perl #31029] [PATCH] IRIX64 (big-endian): avoid desperate
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Cc: Jarkko Hietaniemi (via RT) <parrotbug-follo...@parrotcode.org>
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From: d...@sidhe.org (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)
-- 
				Dan

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