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Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2014 15:55:25 +0400
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To: Lester Caine <lester@lsces.co.uk>
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] 64 bit platform improvements for string length
 and integer
From: dmitry@zend.com (Dmitry Stogov)

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Of course, we are not going to drop 32-bit support :)
This patch affects only PHP on 64-bit systems.

Thanks. Dmitry.


On Thu, Jan 23, 2014 at 2:56 PM, Lester Caine <lester@lsces.co.uk> wrote:

> Pierre Joye wrote:
>
>> I think we can clear these questions during the vote phases, as options.
>>
>> If anyone has an idea how to keep the advantage brought by the
>> renaming (compile checks, clarity, code correctness) without actually
>> doing the renaming in extensions, please fire it:)
>>
>
> Is this still being put forward for a PHP5.x build? Surely this along with
> a tidy up on base modules that support it would be much better used as a
> base for a new PHP6 plan? Extensions that do not support it can also be
> left out and we have a clean demarcation.
>
> One thing I would ask is just what 32bit platforms will remain supported.
> While desktop machines are generally 64bit these days, tablet and mobile
> devices do still tend to be 32bit. The ITX based systems I'm working with
> are still 32bit and while they do tend to run as clients to bigger servers,
> some support their own PHP platform. I already have to support different
> integer sizes anyway and assuming PHP is 32bit simplifies things but I'm a
> little unsure how a change to direct support for 64bit might affect that
> split?
>
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