Laminar boundary-layer separation in the supersonic flow past a corner point on a rigid body contour, also termed the compression ramp, is considered based on the viscous-inviscid interaction concept. The 'triple-deck model' is used to describe the interaction process. The governing equations of the interaction may be formally derived from the Navier-Stokes equations if the ramp angle θ is represented as θ = θ 0 Re −1/4 , where θ 0 is an order-one quantity and Re is the Reynolds number, assumed large. To solve the interaction problem two numerical methods have been used. The first method employs a finite-difference approximation of the governing equations with respect to both the streamwise and wall-normal coordinates. The resulting algebraic equations are linearized using a Newton-Raphson strategy and then solved with the Thomas-matrix technique. The second method uses finite differences in the streamwise direction in combination with Chebychev collocation in the normal direction and Newton-Raphson linearization.Our main concern is with the flow behaviour at large values of θ 0 . The calculations show that as the ramp angle θ 0 increases, additional eddies form near the corner point inside the separation region. The behaviour of the solution does not give any indication that there exists a critical value θ * 0 of the ramp angle θ 0 , as suggested by Smith & Khorrami (1991) who claimed that as θ 0 approaches θ * 0 , a singularity develops near the reattachment point, preventing the continuation of the solution beyond θ * 0 . Instead we find that the numerical solution agrees with Neiland's (1970) theory of reattachment, which does not involve any restriction upon the ramp angle.