On Jun 2, 2013, at 8:34, Pierre Joye <pierre....@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Obviously there's a pretty significant ABI break here. I propose a "tweak" >> of the Z_* macros to "fix" that. Basically, Z_STRLEN() will cast the result >> to an int. This is the same behavior as today, and will mean that existing >> extensions continue to function exactly as today. But new extensions (and >> elsewhere in core) can use a new macro Z_STRSIZE() which will return the >> native size_t. > > A new macro will be a good solution, but I would name it what it > actually is, Z_SIZE_T. That's not what it is. It is the length of the string aka. var.value.str.length as such it should indicate its relation to a string. So something like Z_STRSIZE is correct (and the name is nice thinking about Unicode strings where length (characters) != size (bytes)) johannes -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
