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Subject: RE: [PHP-DEV] [VOTE] 64 bit platform improvements for string length
 and integer
From: zeev@zend.com (Zeev Suraski)

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Johannes Schl=C3=BCter [mailto:johannes@schlueters.de]
> Sent: Saturday, February 01, 2014 8:38 PM
> To: Zeev Suraski
> Cc: Christopher Jones; Anatol Belski; PHP Developers Mailing List
> Subject: RE: [PHP-DEV] [VOTE] 64 bit platform improvements for string
> length and integer
>
> On Sat, 2014-02-01 at 20:28 +0200, Zeev Suraski wrote:
> > > I agree that the 64-bit RFC doesn't affect syntax.  However it does
> > > materially affect the language, so I believe it requires a 2/3
> > > majority.
> >
> > I'd consider it a language-changing RFC.  The 2/3 majority is related
> > to material changes in the language, and as you said, syntax changes
> > are just one (although the most common) such example.  The 50%+1 is
> > really for extension-level changes - mostly new functions/extensions,
> > moving stuff to/from PECL, etc.
>
> Maybe a good difference might be
>
>       * Patches touching main/, TSRM/ or Zend/ require 2/3rd
>       * Patches touching only individually SAPIs or exts require 50%


Probably a clean good way to differentiate, sounds good to me.

Zeev