Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:10595 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 83350 invoked by uid 1010); 18 Jun 2004 18:13:55 -0000 Delivered-To: ezmlm-scan-internals@lists.php.net Delivered-To: ezmlm-internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 83284 invoked from network); 18 Jun 2004 18:13:55 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO e-matters.de) (217.69.76.213) by pb1.pair.com with SMTP; 18 Jun 2004 18:13:55 -0000 Received: (qmail 16179 invoked by uid 0); 18 Jun 2004 18:12:48 -0000 Received: from p508d5e4f.dip.t-dialin.net (HELO ?192.168.1.77?) (80.141.94.79) by /var/run/qmail-smtp.pid with SMTP; 18 Jun 2004 18:12:48 -0000 Message-ID: <40D33113.7050505@php.net> Date: Fri, 18 Jun 2004 20:14:43 +0200 User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.7 (Windows/20040616) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Alexander Valyalkin , internals@lists.php.net References: <40D16253.4000003@php.net> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Re: 64-bit bugsquash From: sesser@php.net (Stefan Esser) Alexander Valyalkin wrote: > I propose to add several new types with EXACT bit length into this file: > ------------------------------- > typedef __int8 zend_int8; > typedef __int16 zend_int16; > typedef __int32 zend_int32; > typedef __int64 zend_int64; > typedef unsigned __int8 zend_uint8; > typedef unsigned __int16 zend_uint16; > typedef unsigned __int32 zend_uint32; > typedef unsigned __int64 zend_uint64; > ------------------------------- Sorry but this idea is out of question. The idea was always that PHP is 64 bit capable as soon you run it on a 64 bit machine. Same for 128 bit machines in the future. It is a stupid idea to limit the number of bits. Especially if you have to call libc functions... Stefan Esser