Jason Gloudon (via RT) wrote: > # New Ticket Created by Jason Gloudon > # Please include the string: [perl #18127] > # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. > # <URL: http://rt.perl.org/rt2/Ticket/Display.html?id=18127 > I have problems to understand the line below: (not voting against your patch - original line is similar) > + cur_var_ptr = (size_t)((ptrdiff_t)cur_var_ptr + PARROT_PTR_ALIGNMENT) When PARROT_PTR_ALIGNMENT is not 1, that much pointers -1 are skipped during stack scanning by incrementing cur_var_ptr by sizeof(size_t) * PARROT_PTR_ALIGNMENT bytes. As a side note: applying your patch slows down e.g. life.pasm by ~2%. (I really don't see why). leoThread Previous | Thread Next