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Date: Fri, 31 May 2013 16:48:19 -0400
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To: Derick Rethans <derick@php.net>
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] 5.NEXT Integer and String type modifications
From: theanomaly.is@gmail.com (Sherif Ramadan)

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On Fri, May 31, 2013 at 4:21 PM, Derick Rethans <derick@php.net> wrote:

> Anthony Ferrara <ircmaxell@gmail.com> 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 needs to very well looked at as well.
> > >
> > >
> > As far as the casting, my first reaction would be to raise an
> > E_ENGINE_NOTICE on data loss (casting from int64 to int32 with ints >
> > 32
> > bit) and then adjusting the value to the nearest representable value
> > (LONG_MAX or LONG_MIN). In other words, it may need to be more than a
> > simple cast (an inline function perhaps)
>
> That can't be handled in applications though ...
>
> > As far as object wrappers, any particular examples that you're
> > thinking of?
>
> It happens on atleast two extensions that I've written, dbus and mongodb,
> so I was thinking there must be a few more.
>
>
PDO does a lot of that in various places.


> Cheers,
> Derick
>
>
>
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