On 11 Oct 2014, at 00:40, Lester Caine <les...@lsces.co.uk> wrote: >> What you want is 64-bit data handling. This is arbitrary-bit data handling. >> It’s not a “wrong approach”. > > So BIGINT on 32 bit platforms will be different to BIGINT on 64 bit > platforms? BIGINT is a fix length number not a variable one …
“Bigints” typically refer to arbitrary-size integers, that is, their size is bounded only by the amount of RAM available. I don’t know what you think a “bigint” is, but it’s different to everyone else. -- Andrea Faulds http://ajf.me/ -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
