Re: Third call for platform testing - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Bruce Momjian
Subject Re: Third call for platform testing
Date
Msg-id 200112150552.fBF5qpb26154@candle.pha.pa.us
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In response to Third call for platform testing  (Thomas Lockhart <lockhart@fourpalms.org>)
Responses Re: Third call for platform testing  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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What are we doing with the SunOS port?  It is failing the 'bit'
regression test.  I can easily do the work if people tell me how they
want this handled.


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> > > SunOS        Tatsuo Ishii
> > >               Are we giving up on this one? Still relevant?
> > 
> > What should we do? The only remaining issue is a non-8-bit-clean
> > memcmp, which seems pretty easy to fix it.
> 
> Yes, seems we could go a few directions with SunOS:
> 
>     Leave bit types broken on that platform, document it
>     Hard-code in a memcmp() in C for just that platform in varbit.c
>     Add configure test and real memcmp() function for bad platforms
> 
> Anyone want to vote on these?  Personally, SunOS seems like the
> granddaddy of ports and I would hate to see it leave, especially when we
> are so close.
> 
> -- 
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