# Looking for Z_TYPE_PP in all the wrong places. - Thread: https://externals.io/message/97397 - Original archive: https://news-web.php.net/php.internals/97397 - Started by Richard Quadling on 2016-12-14T13:17:34+00:00 - Messages: 7 - Reply by email to internals@lists.php.net - More for agents: search with https://externals.io/search.md?q={query} · JSON API at https://externals.io/api · documentation at https://externals.io/llms.txt --- ## #97397 — Richard Quadling — 2016-12-14T13:17:34+00:00 URL: https://externals.io/message/97397#97397 Hi. I'm trying to find the replacement for Z_TYPE_PP (and several other Z_xxx_PP). It seems these are no longer present in PHP7. But, according to http://lxr.php.net/source/search?q=&defs=&refs=Z_TYPE_PP&path=&hist=&type=&project=PHP-MASTER, there is still 1 use case of this particular macro. So. I'm hoping to see what the change for this is as it can't currently compile under PHP7? I'm not a hardcode C / PHP core developer, but I'm getting asked to provide support for the win32service extension. Currently it fails to compile : https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=73733 Just looking for some pointers. Literally! Ha ha! Regards, Richard Quadling. --- ## #97398 — Michael Wallner — 2016-12-14T13:32:42+00:00 URL: https://externals.io/message/97397#97398 · In reply to: #97397 > Hi. > > I'm trying to find the replacement for Z_TYPE_PP (and several other > Z_xxx_PP). > > It seems these are no longer present in PHP7. In PHP-7, you usually do not encounter zval**, so the _PP macros were gone. Try _P(*zval) instead. > > But, according to > http://lxr.php.net/source/search?q=&defs=&refs=Z_TYPE_PP&path=&hist=&type=&project=PHP-MASTER, > there is still 1 use case of this particular macro. This just means that nobody ever built ext/odbc with the birdstep driver. Unfortunate. -- Regards, Mike --- ## #97399 — Christoph M. Becker — 2016-12-14T14:37:09+00:00 URL: https://externals.io/message/97397#97399 · In reply to: #97398 > > > […] > > In PHP-7, you usually do not encounter zval**, so the _PP macros were > gone. Try _P(*zval) instead. See also for further information. -- Christoph M. Becker --- ## #97403 — Richard Quadling — 2016-12-14T16:55:26+00:00 URL: https://externals.io/message/97397#97403 · In reply to: #97399 > > > > […] > > See also for further information. > > -- > Christoph M. Becker > > Thank you for that. I wasn't sure where to look for the answer. -- Richard Quadling --- ## #97406 — Anatol Belski — 2016-12-14T18:27:29+00:00 URL: https://externals.io/message/97397#97406 · In reply to: #97398 > -----Original Message----- > From: Michael Wallner [mailto:mike.php.net@gmail.com] On Behalf Of Michael > Wallner > Sent: Wednesday, December 14, 2016 2:33 PM > To: RQuadling@gmail.com; PHP internals > Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Looking for Z_TYPE_PP in all the wrong places. > > > > […] > > In PHP-7, you usually do not encounter zval**, so the _PP macros were gone. > Try _P(*zval) instead. > > > […] > > This just means that nobody ever built ext/odbc with the birdstep driver. > Unfortunate. > Yeah, birdstep was even not ported to 7.0, and monkey patching were anyway erroneous. Seems it was a commercial driver, but either it was rebranded or discontinued, anyway I never found the driver SDK. It might make sense to remove the birdstep part from the ext/odbc, except there's someone with driver and maintanence will - it's a dead code. Regards Anatol --- ## #97420 — Christoph M. Becker — 2016-12-15T13:09:59+00:00 URL: https://externals.io/message/97397#97420 · In reply to: #97406 > > […] > Yeah, birdstep was even not ported to 7.0, and monkey patching were anyway erroneous. Seems it was a commercial driver, but either it was rebranded or discontinued, anyway I never found the driver SDK. According to Wikipedia[1], Raima Incorporated purchased Raima back from Birdstep. They're offering free evaluation downloads for their software[2]. > It might make sense to remove the birdstep part from the ext/odbc, > except there's someone with driver and maintanence will - it's a > dead code. ACK. [1] [2] -- Christoph M. Becker --- ## #98660 — Anatol Belski — 2017-03-28T18:56:00+00:00 URL: https://externals.io/message/97397#98660 · In reply to: #97420 > -----Original Message----- > From: Christoph M. Becker [mailto:cmbecker69@gmx.de] > Sent: Thursday, December 15, 2016 2:10 PM > To: Anatol Belski ; 'Michael Wallner' > ; > RQuadling@gmail.com; 'PHP internals' > Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Looking for Z_TYPE_PP in all the wrong places. > > > > > […] > erroneous. Seems it was a commercial driver, but either it was rebranded > or > discontinued, anyway I never found the driver SDK. > > According to Wikipedia[1], Raima Incorporated purchased Raima back from > Birdstep. They're offering free evaluation downloads for their > software[2]. > > > […] > > ACK. > > [1] > [2] > Finally I came to check this. The download table shows support for almost outdated OS versions and compilers, unfortunately there's nothing looking like to be worthy to try. Fe the latest packages for Ubuntu are 12.x, CentOS 5, SUSE 10, Visual Studio 2010, etc. It seems that the software, even if commercial, has no new releases for at least 7 years. Even if I'd wanted to go through the registration torture to download the driver, it would require to setup some VM with some EOL'd OS or outdated compiler, which makes little to no sense. Given also, since the 7.0 release date, there was no a single bug report about this driver, it seems feasible to me to consider this part as a dead code at least on the PHP side. I would go by removing this part in 7.0 already, as it's unlikely to be ported neither now nor later due to the lack of the actual driver base. Should the driver have a new release and there be some maintainers willing to do the porting work, it could be reintroduced. I'm intended to wash it out, should I have time for such a low priority task, if there is no objection. Regards Anatol