Re: Third call for platform testing

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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