Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:76752 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 47475 invoked from network); 21 Aug 2014 10:11:25 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO lists.php.net) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 21 Aug 2014 10:11:25 -0000 Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com header.from=derick@php.net; sender-id=unknown Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com smtp.mail=derick@php.net; spf=unknown; sender-id=unknown Received-SPF: unknown (pb1.pair.com: domain php.net does not designate 82.113.146.227 as permitted sender) X-PHP-List-Original-Sender: derick@php.net X-Host-Fingerprint: 82.113.146.227 xdebug.org Linux 2.6 Received: from [82.113.146.227] ([82.113.146.227:45222] helo=xdebug.org) by pb1.pair.com (ecelerity 2.1.1.9-wez r(12769M)) with ESMTP id 26/31-38523-AC5C5F35 for ; Thu, 21 Aug 2014 06:11:25 -0400 Received: from localhost (localhost [IPv6:::1]) by xdebug.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 0B8D81176E1; Thu, 21 Aug 2014 11:11:19 +0100 (BST) Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2014 11:11:19 +0100 (BST) X-X-Sender: derick@whisky.home.derickrethans.nl To: Andrea Faulds cc: PHP Internals In-Reply-To: <88F3B0AF-786C-43BA-AD39-3D8B77D13B2F@ajf.me> Message-ID: References: <88F3B0AF-786C-43BA-AD39-3D8B77D13B2F@ajf.me> User-Agent: Alpine 2.11 (DEB 23 2013-08-11) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] Integer Semantics From: derick@php.net (Derick Rethans) On Tue, 19 Aug 2014, Andrea Faulds wrote: > Good evening, > > I have made an RFC which would make some small changes to how integers are handled, targeted at PHP 7: > > https://wiki.php.net/rfc/integer_semantics I think it is good to make sure it behaves the same on all systems. However, I think the behaviour should become what currently is the shift behaviour on the platform with our largest userbase: Linux on AMD64 with GCC. There is no reason to penalise people that well might have relied on some "odd" behaviour - possible even with good reasons. cheers, Derick