Re: Re: Poniedate #43

-----Original Message-----
> On 1 Mar 2004, at 15:06, Dave Mitchell wrote:
> > I'm probably teaching my grandmopther to suck eggs here, but...
> >
> > You do know that a a pad consists of an array-of-arrays, rather than 
> > the
> > usual array-of-refs-to-arrays? And that the outer array isn't AvREAL, 
> > and
> > so doesn't do ref-couning?
> 
> I know, and it shouldn't really matter since I haven't changed the 
> code, it is still using all the macros to get the normal pointers 
> except that it happens through an indirection.
> 
> So AvARRAY  calls    Perl_macro_AvARRAY that does a 
> Parrot_PMC_get_pointer and then return &(xav->xav_array)   for example. 
> So it shouldn't be changing anything.

&(xav->xav_array) ? Shouldn't that just be ((SV**)(xav->xav_array)) to match the standard definition of AvARRAY? Typo or is there something more subtle going on?

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