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