Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:77869 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 8853 invoked from network); 11 Oct 2014 00:18:43 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO lists.php.net) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 11 Oct 2014 00:18:43 -0000 Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com smtp.mail=ajf@ajf.me; spf=pass; sender-id=pass Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com header.from=ajf@ajf.me; sender-id=pass Received-SPF: pass (pb1.pair.com: domain ajf.me designates 192.64.116.200 as permitted sender) X-PHP-List-Original-Sender: ajf@ajf.me X-Host-Fingerprint: 192.64.116.200 imap1-2.ox.privateemail.com Received: from [192.64.116.200] ([192.64.116.200:38011] helo=imap1-2.ox.privateemail.com) by pb1.pair.com (ecelerity 2.1.1.9-wez r(12769M)) with ESMTP id 9F/16-06615-26778345 for ; Fri, 10 Oct 2014 20:18:42 -0400 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail.privateemail.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id F2990B00085; Fri, 10 Oct 2014 20:18:36 -0400 (EDT) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at imap1.ox.privateemail.com Received: from mail.privateemail.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (imap1.ox.privateemail.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id oqSGr_kOfSUE; Fri, 10 Oct 2014 20:18:36 -0400 (EDT) Received: from oa-res-26-28.wireless.abdn.ac.uk (oa-res-26-28.wireless.abdn.ac.uk [137.50.26.28]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.privateemail.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id B6186B00068; Fri, 10 Oct 2014 20:18:35 -0400 (EDT) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Mime-Version: 1.0 (Mac OS X Mail 7.3 \(1878.6\)) In-Reply-To: <54386E55.20407@lsces.co.uk> Date: Sat, 11 Oct 2014 01:18:31 +0100 Cc: "internals@lists.php.net >> PHP internals" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-ID: <5A30388D-AD64-4C6A-8547-A0C98D834A8A@ajf.me> References: <8C47FA53-0964-49C0-963C-332A936348A5@ajf.me> <54385BC4.8030405@lsces.co.uk> <54386E55.20407@lsces.co.uk> To: Lester Caine X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1878.6) Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] Big Integer Support From: ajf@ajf.me (Andrea Faulds) On 11 Oct 2014, at 00:40, Lester Caine wrote: >> What you want is 64-bit data handling. This is arbitrary-bit data = handling. It=92s not a =93wrong approach=94. >=20 > So BIGINT on 32 bit platforms will be different to BIGINT on 64 bit > platforms? BIGINT is a fix length number not a variable one =85 =93Bigints=94 typically refer to arbitrary-size integers, that is, their = size is bounded only by the amount of RAM available. I don=92t know what you think a =93bigint=94 is, but it=92s different to = everyone else. -- Andrea Faulds http://ajf.me/