Re: PHP3 and 64-bit land

On Sat, 27 Feb 1999 sas@schell.de wrote: > Well, I don't intend to change that specific part. It appears to me that > index_ptr is just recycled. As a general approach, PHP usually uses void pointers to store any enumerated type (long, pointer, int, etc). There's one exception I can think of, which is the hash, that uses unsigned integers to store the numeric offsets. Resources use hash tables to store themselves, and they usually use the numeric indices. I think it's extremely safe to use 32-bit integers as unique identifiers for 64-bit pointers, by simply casting them. You'd have to be extremely unlucky to bump into a problem because of this data loss. Your chances of winning the lottery are much much bigger. Of course, you mustn't *store* pointers in integers, but that's something different. Zeev -- ----------------------------------------------------- Zeev Suraski <zeev@zend.com> For a PGP public key, finger bourbon@netvision.net.il -- PHP Development Mailing List http://www.php.net/ To unsubscribe send an empty message to php-dev-unsubscribe@lists.php.net For help: php-dev-help@lists.php.net