Re: [PHP3] Serialize Problem

Thies, Thanks! This will help a lot. Could you post the diffs to the list? --jim "Thies C. Arntzen" wrote: > > On Fri, 5 Nov 1999, jim kraai wrote: > > > All, > > > > Why does serialize truncate floats? > > fixed in PHP 3 and PHP 4 CVS - thanx for the report - serialize now uses > the precision as set in php[3].ini! > > > > > Example via cmd-line: > > <?php > > $a = 3.1415926535897932384626433832795; > > print $a; > > Content-type: text/html > > > > 3.1415926535898 > > > > print unserialize(serialize($a)); > > 3.14159 > > > > print unserialize(serialize($a*10000)); > > 314159 > > > > print unserialize(serialize($a*1000000)); > > 3141590 > > ?> > > > > Anybody know why this choice was made? Should we be fixing this? > > > > Also, two opinions on the serialize code--no offense meant. > > 1. all that reallocation for every character is not exactly optimal > > reallocation takes place for every variable that get serialized (not every > character) - that could be optimized - i agree. > > > 2. why is the type flag for an index the same as for an integer? > > because they are ints. and changing it now would make it it incompatible. > > regards, > tc > > > > > Thanks, > > > > --jim > > > > -- > > PHP 3 Mailing List <http://www.php.net/> > > To unsubscribe, send an empty message to php3-unsubscribe@lists.php.net > > To subscribe to the digest, e-mail: php3-digest-subscribe@lists.php.net > > To search the mailing list archive, go to: > > http://www.php.net/mailsearch.php3 > > To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net > > > > > > Thies C. Arntzen "One Big-Mac, Small Fries and a Coke!" > Digital Collections Phone +49 40 235350 Fax +49 40 23535180 > Hammerbrookstr. 93 20097 Hamburg / Germany > > -- > PHP 3 Mailing List <http://www.php.net/> > To unsubscribe, send an empty message to php3-unsubscribe@lists.php.net > To subscribe to the digest, e-mail: php3-digest-subscribe@lists.php.net > To search the mailing list archive, go to: > http://www.php.net/mailsearch.php3 > To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net -- --jim kraai President, MURL.COM My direct dial number is 319-369-0344x203