Other Integers for php 6

Ezra Nugroho wrote:

Uh, positive bits?

A bitfield is a bitfield. Signedness is irrelevant.

-Rasmus

Yes.

I probably should say integers that I can modify with bitwise operators
comfortably without changing the signs. The problem is that people may
want to do comparison after doing bitwise operations. If the sign is
changed, the comparison will not be valid, right?

That's why I want to stay within the positive range.

Take a look at
http://pecl.php.net/package/big_int/1.0.2

Andrey

Ezra Nugroho wrote:

I probably should say integers that I can modify with bitwise operators
comfortably without changing the signs. The problem is that people may
want to do comparison after doing bitwise operations. If the sign is
changed, the comparison will not be valid, right?

That's why I want to stay within the positive range.

You just don't care about signedness:

mike@honeybadger:~/development/testimonials$ ./un_or_signed
-1 4294967295 4294967295 -1 EQUAL
mike@honeybadger:~/development/testimonials$ cat un_or_signed.c
#include <stdio.h>

int main(int argc, char *argv[])
{
signed i1 = -1;
unsigned i2 = -1;

     printf("%d %u %u %d %s\n", i1, i2, i1, i2, i1==i2?"EQUAL":"DIFFER");

     return 0;

}

Regards,

Michael - <mike(@)php.net> http://dev.iworks.at/ext-http/http-functions.html.gz