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Date: Mon, 4 Jun 2012 10:33:24 +0200
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To: Gustavo Lopes <glopes@nebm.ist.utl.pt>
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] full LFS support
From: pierre.php@gmail.com (Pierre Joye)

On Mon, Jun 4, 2012 at 9:50 AM, Gustavo Lopes <glopes@nebm.ist.utl.pt> wrote:

> I should tend to agree, but in any case it shouldn't stop us from fixing the
> streams C API to use the correct types. As a bonus, we'll have LFS support
> in compilers with 64-bit longs.

The correct types usage is a very old todo and should be fixed.
However it can be done only in a major version as it will drastically
affect many extensions. Even if it is mostly internals changes. That's
something I like to begin with this summer, let try to sync us and see
how we can get that done in a reasonable time frame :)

Cheers,
-- 
Pierre

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