#25317 [NEW]: Would like a 64-bit integer native type

From: phpbug at paypc dot com Operating system: All PHP version: 4.3.3 PHP Bug Type: Feature/Change Request Bug description: Would like a 64-bit integer native type Description: ------------ This is fairly straightforward. Right now, native numeric types are float/doubles and 32-bit integers. Given that > 4GB of memory in a machine is affordable even for the home consumer, it is important to be able to represent exact cardinal values without any floating-point nonsense. I don't know how much impact this would have the internals of Zend, or performance for that matter. Non-64-bit-native CPUs could probably adopt optimisations to avoid having to do 64-bit operations on values / expressions where the values are not expected to exceed 32 bits of value, or perhaps, via "type-hinting" by the programmer. I realise that "bcmath" stuff can handle an effectively infinitely large integer value... but that's really a string-math subsystem with all of the usual limitations (and performance costs). -- Edit bug report at http://bugs.php.net/?id=25317&edit=1 -- Try a CVS snapshot (php4): http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=25317&r=trysnapshot4 Try a CVS snapshot (php5): http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=25317&r=trysnapshot5 Fixed in CVS: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=25317&r=fixedcvs Fixed in release: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=25317&r=alreadyfixed Need backtrace: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=25317&r=needtrace Try newer version: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=25317&r=oldversion Not developer issue: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=25317&r=support Expected behavior: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=25317&r=notwrong Not enough info: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=25317&r=notenoughinfo Submitted twice: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=25317&r=submittedtwice register_globals: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=25317&r=globals PHP 3 support discontinued: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=25317&r=php3 Daylight Savings: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=25317&r=dst IIS Stability: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=25317&r=isapi Install GNU Sed: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=25317&r=gnused