Hi all,

On Wed, Jan 21, 2015 at 8:22 AM, Rasmus Lerdorf <ras...@lerdorf.com> wrote:

> On 01/20/2015 02:46 PM, Stanislav Malyshev wrote:
> > Hi!
> >
> >> So, I guess the lesson is that we need to be careful when we migrate
> >> extensions to PHP 7. Passing ints instead of size_t string length params
> >> to zpp can cause extreme weirdness and we should go through all our
> >> bundled extensions and make sure things that are still using "s" have
> >> all been changed to size_t.
> >
> > Definitely so. I've recently went through intl and fixed a bunch of
> > int/size_t issues, but judging from how many there were, I assume other
> > non-trivial extensions would have such things too. We have lots of
> > places where size_t and int are intermixed - e.g., random try, go to
> > mysqli extension, do grep int *.c | grep len and see that results of
> > spprintf - which returns size_t - are put into int. Now, in this case
> > it's almost 100% not a problem, but illustrates bigger issue of mixing
> > the types, and in some cases it may be a real problem.
>
> Yeah, I was quite surprised by the weirdness it caused. I don't think I
> have ever seen something that breaks under -O2 start working again
> compiled with -O3. That's what had me chasing my tail into assembly
> world for a bit there.
>
> I have fixed up ext/imap now. Hopefully I caught them all.


I'm observing somewhat similar behavior. I don't have clue why it does...

gcc version 4.9.2 20141101 (Red Hat 4.9.2-1) (GCC)

Should we use size_t/ptrdiff_t everywhere applicable?

Regards,

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Yasuo Ohgaki
yohg...@ohgaki.net

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