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Date: Tue, 2 Oct 2007 09:58:05 -0700
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Thread-Topic: [PHP-DEV] Re: VS 2005 Support for 5.3?
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To: "Rob Richards" <rrichards@ctindustries.net>,
	"Pierre" <pierre.php@gmail.com>
Cc: "PHP Internals List" <internals@lists.php.net>,
	"Frank M. Kromann" <frank@kromann.info>,
	"Edin Kadribasic" <edin@krug.dk>,
	"Dmitry Stogov" <dmitry@zend.com>
Subject: RE: [PHP-DEV] Re: VS 2005 Support for 5.3?
From: andi@zend.com ("Andi Gutmans")

I definitely think it's worth another go. VS 2005 binaries are
significantly faster than VC 6 (at least last time I checked).
We can also help out a bit with issues as we've tackled some of them
already.

Andi

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Rob Richards [mailto:rrichards@ctindustries.net]
> Sent: Tuesday, October 02, 2007 7:20 AM
> To: Pierre
> Cc: PHP Internals List; Frank M. Kromann; Edin Kadribasic; Dmitry
> Stogov
> Subject: [PHP-DEV] Re: VS 2005 Support for 5.3?
>=20
> Hi Pierre,
>=20
> Going forward this might be a good idea, but there needs to be a good
> amount of testing.
> I have ran into an issue recently running apps built with VS 2005
using
> dynamically linked libraries built with older versions due to
different
> runtime linking, which did make me think of this specific issue.
> Seeing
> that there are a crap load of third part dlls, things will need some
> extensive testing.
>=20
> The issue I saw was due to the fact that the application (built with
> 2005) created a FILE * using fopen. This was passed to a dll, which
> called fwrite (built with an older version). fwrite() was called
within
> msvcrt8, while fopen was called within msvcrt causing a crash due to
> the
> use of different runtimes.
>=20
> Of course the FILE * probably should have been obtained from the dll
> (API permitting), but there is a good potential for similar issues
with
> the number of libraries around and the fact that they can no longer
> rely
> on always being called from msvcrt like they could in the old days.
>=20
> Rob
>=20
> Pierre wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > One important thing we forgot to discuss is to drop VS6 support fin
> > 5.3 and finally move to VS2005.
> >
> > It has a couple of side effects but it is a one time job and should
> > make our life easier on windows from 5.3 and up.
> >
> > Comments?
> >
> > Cheers,
> > --Pierre
> >
> >
>=20
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