At 09:03 PM 4/17/2004 +0100, Lester Caine wrote:
AFAIK ext/mysqli returns string in case the int value is too big to fit into 32 bits.
After that it's up to the user to decide what to do -> cast to float or use bcmath .
That will probably work for returning field values in a result set, the particular problem I am looking at is a function that is defined as returning an integer, but which could potentially contain a 64 bit value.
Is any work being done on handling THAT potential time bomb?
You could use a 64bit machine :)
That is probably what Firebird will be running on later this year, but the PHP servers are likely to be 32 bit for some time.
In any case, the customer sites still insist on Windoze because their IT departments don't understand anything else ;) So 32bit is the order of the day when deploying - unless someone has a 64bit version of Windoze - but then the IT departments would want years to test it :)
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