Re: [HACKERS] Call for platforms

[Tatsuo Ishii]

> Tatsuo Ishii <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > For the regression test, I got 7 failures, most of them seem harmless,
> > the only concern I have is bit test though.
> 
> Most of the diffs derive from what I recall to be a known SunOS problem,
> that strtol fails to notice overflow.  A value that should be rejected
> is getting inserted into int4_tbl (mod 2^32 of course).
> 
> 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?

Good point. From the man page of memcmp(3) on this machine:

BUGS
     memcmp() uses native character comparison, which  is  signed
     on  some  machines and unsigned on other machines.  Thus the
     sign of the value returned when one of  the  characters  has
     its high-order bit set is implementation-dependent.
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Tatsuo Ishii

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