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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] [VOTE] 64 bit platform improvements for string length
 and integer
From: pierre.php@gmail.com (Pierre Joye)

On Fri, Jan 31, 2014 at 12:56 AM, Derick Rethans <derick@php.net> wrote:

> And seriously, this one of the biggest mistakes I've seen in a while.
> Changing APIs so much that basically half of your code needs an update,
> or #ifdef hell. This is not acceptable, especially not for a PHP 5.X
> branch =E2=80=94 especially not so late in the game for 5.6!

Late?

> And what is the gain? Absolutely nothing important. Who cares whether
> you can have 2147483648 or 9223372036854775808 byte long strings? Or
> whether some silly OS doesn't implement 64bit ints.

Please re read the discussions about this RFC and the RFC, it is not
only about that. If there is something still unclear, please raise
your questions.

> Seriously, you are
> forgetting how incredible much pain *all* extension authors have to go
> through. This is not only ext/ or pecl/ or people hosting things in
> GitHub, but also an enormous amount of internal extensions for
> companies.

I do not think it has been forgotten. And many of the voters maintain
(many) extensions as well, so do I.


Cheers,
Pierre