To calculate the path of a compressed index entry, we need to know the
preceding entry's path. While we do actually set the first predecessor
correctly to "", we fail to update this while reading the entries.

Fix the issue by updating `last` inside of the loop. Previously, we've
been passing a double-pointer to `read_entry`, which it didn't update.
As it is more obvious to update the pointer inside the loop itself,
though, we can simply convert it to a normal pointer.