Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:9331 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 94912 invoked by uid 1010); 17 Apr 2004 19:48:21 -0000 Delivered-To: ezmlm-scan-internals@lists.php.net Delivered-To: ezmlm-internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 94878 invoked from network); 17 Apr 2004 19:48:21 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO iko.gotobg.net) (80.168.8.116) by pb1.pair.com with SMTP; 17 Apr 2004 19:48:21 -0000 Received: from pd9e612bc.dip.t-dialin.net ([217.230.18.188] helo=hristov.com) by iko.gotobg.net with asmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1BEvne-0004Ab-91; Sat, 17 Apr 2004 22:48:26 +0300 Message-ID: <408189CB.8040802@hristov.com> Date: Sat, 17 Apr 2004 21:47:23 +0200 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20031230 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Lester Caine CC: internals@lists.php.net References: <20040417194419.84912.qmail@pb1.pair.com> In-Reply-To: <20040417194419.84912.qmail@pb1.pair.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-AntiAbuse: This header was added to track abuse, please include it with any abuse report X-AntiAbuse: Primary Hostname - iko.gotobg.net X-AntiAbuse: Original Domain - lists.php.net X-AntiAbuse: Originator/Caller UID/GID - [0 0] / [47 12] X-AntiAbuse: Sender Address Domain - hristov.com Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Size of integer From: php@hristov.com (Andrey Hristov) Lester Caine wrote: > An interesting little question has pooped up. > > How big is an integer? > > Firebird uses BIGINT or INT_64 for generator values, and the new > ibase_gen_id in PHP5 returns that value as an integer. > > Has any thought been given to managing 64bit field values in PHP5? > Hi, AFAIK ext/mysqli returns string in case the int value is too big to fit into 32 bits. After that it's up to the user to decide what to do -> cast to float or use bcmath . HTH, Andrey