Re: Call for platforms

Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>

From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>
Cc: Tatsuo Ishii <t-ishii@sra.co.jp>, thomas@pgsql.com, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Date: 2001-03-24T18:31:07Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net> writes:
> Tom Lane writes:
>> The bit test diffs seem to indicate that bit_cmp is messed up.  That
>> depends on memcmp.  I seem to recall something about memcmp not being
>> 8-bit-clean on SunOS ... does that ring a bell with anyone?

> Sure enough:
>  - Macro: AC_FUNC_MEMCMP
>      If the `memcmp' function is not available, or does not work on
>      8-bit data (like the one on SunOS 4.1.3), add `memcmp.o' to output
>      variable `LIBOBJS'.
> We could try to mangle this into doing the right thing for us.

Not sure if it's worth the trouble.  That would be an AC_TRY_RUN test,
which you've been trying to move away from, no?  It doesn't seem like
anyone still cares about SunOS 4.1.*, so ...

			regards, tom lane