Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:68863 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 628 invoked from network); 2 Sep 2013 20:21:42 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO lists.php.net) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 2 Sep 2013 20:21:42 -0000 Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com smtp.mail=smalyshev@sugarcrm.com; spf=pass; sender-id=pass Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com header.from=smalyshev@sugarcrm.com; sender-id=pass Received-SPF: pass (pb1.pair.com: domain sugarcrm.com designates 108.166.43.67 as permitted sender) X-PHP-List-Original-Sender: smalyshev@sugarcrm.com X-Host-Fingerprint: 108.166.43.67 smtp67.ord1c.emailsrvr.com Linux 2.6 Received: from [108.166.43.67] ([108.166.43.67:33029] helo=smtp67.ord1c.emailsrvr.com) by pb1.pair.com (ecelerity 2.1.1.9-wez r(12769M)) with ESMTP id 04/5D-29856-553F4225 for ; Mon, 02 Sep 2013 16:21:41 -0400 Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by smtp1.relay.ord1c.emailsrvr.com (SMTP Server) with ESMTP id 580F0148909; Mon, 2 Sep 2013 16:21:39 -0400 (EDT) X-Virus-Scanned: OK Received: by smtp1.relay.ord1c.emailsrvr.com (Authenticated sender: smalyshev-AT-sugarcrm.com) with ESMTPSA id E781E1488FD; Mon, 2 Sep 2013 16:21:38 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <5224F352.30408@sugarcrm.com> Date: Mon, 02 Sep 2013 13:21:38 -0700 Organization: SugarCRM User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.7; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130801 Thunderbird/17.0.8 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Rasmus Schultz CC: Matthew Leverton , PHP internals References: <52244384.7030407@sugarcrm.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Re: crc32() and ip2long() return values From: smalyshev@sugarcrm.com (Stas Malyshev) Hi! > What I'm suggesting is simply a set of alternative functions to > ip2long() and crc32() that return consistent values on all platforms, > e.g. 32-bit signed integer values - a couple of new functions and a > couple of quick updates to the documentation explaining why you might > want to use them, that's all. Why 32-bit signed values and not something else - like binhex or some other form? What these values are to be used for? -- Stanislav Malyshev, Software Architect SugarCRM: http://www.sugarcrm.com/ (408)454-6900 ext. 227