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Re: Call for platforms

Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>

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From: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: Tatsuo Ishii <t-ishii@sra.co.jp>, <thomas@pgsql.com>, <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2001-03-24T09:38:04Z
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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.

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