[Lazarus] Mac (or other BigEndian machine) users needed to test new Utf8StringOfChar code

[Mark Morgan Lloyd]

Hans-Peter Diettrich wrote:
> Bart schrieb:
> 
>>> Did you also test the simpler approach, replicating the pattern in one
>>> loop? It's independent of endianness, and can boil down to a single
>>> machine instruction (x86: REP MOVS).
>>
>> It would be repeating either 2,3, or 4-bytes each time.
>> How would you code that?
> 
> I would not care.

I've missed part of this thread due to messages dropped at our gateway, 
but am currently trying to check on SPARC Linux.

Bart, where's Utf8Length() imported from, of do you have your own 
implementation that's newer than Lazarus 1.0 + FPC 2.6.0?

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