Hi,
On 05/31/2013 10:03 PM, Anthony Ferrara wrote:
Derick,
In principle I think this is great thing to do. Not having a 64 bit type is
annoying. I'm a bit curious on how this is going to work with all sorts of
object wrappers that are now in place as workaround. And casting int64 to
int32 nee
On Fri, May 31, 2013 at 9:11 PM, Anthony Ferrara wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> I want to start an idea thread (or at least get a conversation going) about
> cleaning up the core integer data type and string lengths. Here's my ideas:
>
> 1. Change string length in the ZVAL from int to size_t
> - http://
Andrey Hristov wrote:
>what about new type IS_LONG64, new field in union and new set of macros
>
>for this type. New extensions or rewritten extensions will use the new
>macros. In 2-3 major versions, 5.8 for example, old macros will be
>dropped. Enough time extensions to be ported to the new
Anthony Ferrara wrote:
>1. Change string length in the ZVAL from int to size_t
> - http://lxr.php.net/xref/PHP_5_5/Zend/zend.h#321
This would be good but a lot of work and an hard to track engine change ...
>2. Change long in the ZVAL (lval) to a system-determined 64bit fixed
>size
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