Re: Variant tests failing on big endian machines

[Torsten Schoenfeld <kaffeetisch gmx de>]

On 26.06.2015 17:54, Rafael dos Santos wrote:
> > const char * g_variant_classify (GVariant *value);
> >     PREINIT:
> >         GVariantClass vclass;
> >     CODE:
> >         vclass = g_variant_classify (value);
> >         RETVAL = (const char *) &((char) vclass);
>
> GVariant.xs: In function ‘XS_Glib__Variant_classify’:
> GVariant.xs:285:26: error: lvalue required as unary ‘&’ operand
>   RETVAL = (const char *) &((char) vclass);
>                           ^

Right.  How about this patch then?  Works on my (little-endian) machine.

(The "const char *" typemap copies the string, so it's OK to return
references to local variables.)

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