Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:103010 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 30540 invoked from network); 1 Aug 2018 19:07:34 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO lists.php.net) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 1 Aug 2018 19:07:34 -0000 Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com header.from=lester@lsces.co.uk; sender-id=pass Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com smtp.mail=lester@lsces.co.uk; spf=pass; sender-id=pass Received-SPF: pass (pb1.pair.com: domain lsces.co.uk designates 185.153.204.204 as permitted sender) X-PHP-List-Original-Sender: lester@lsces.co.uk X-Host-Fingerprint: 185.153.204.204 mail4.serversure.net Linux 2.6 Received: from [185.153.204.204] ([185.153.204.204:43981] helo=mail4.serversure.net) by pb1.pair.com (ecelerity 2.1.1.9-wez r(12769M)) with ESMTP id 2C/FE-14835-5F4026B5 for ; Wed, 01 Aug 2018 15:07:33 -0400 Received: (qmail 21288 invoked by uid 89); 1 Aug 2018 19:07:30 -0000 Received: by simscan 1.3.1 ppid: 21277, pid: 21284, t: 0.1088s scanners: attach: 1.3.1 clamav: 0.96/m:52/d:10677 Received: from unknown (HELO ?10.0.0.121?) (lester@lsces.co.uk@81.138.11.136) by mail4.serversure.net with ESMTPA; 1 Aug 2018 19:07:30 -0000 To: internals@lists.php.net References: Message-ID: Date: Wed, 1 Aug 2018 20:07:25 +0100 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.9.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Language: en-GB Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Array max size From: lester@lsces.co.uk (Lester Caine) On 01/08/18 19:41, Marcos Passos wrote: > My understanding is that the conceptual limit is*PHP_INT_MAX*, as there is > no way to represent the size above this value. And on which definition, 32bit versions of PHP crash out before 64bit builds ... It assumes that one HAS to convert variables to binary numbers but one can quite easily retain 64bit numbers on a 32bit version of PHP, so why should it not be possible to to handle even larger numbers ... and text keys for an array can handle 'larger' numbers or other identifiers. Now some recent changes to arrays may be containing an unlimited array size, but it should not prevent it from being able to be handled. -- Lester Caine - G8HFL ----------------------------- Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com/ Model Engineers Digital Workshop - http://medw.co.uk Rainbow Digital Media - http://rainbowdigitalmedia.co.uk