Re: PHP3 and 64-bit land

From: Date: Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000
Subject: Re: PHP3 and 64-bit land
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> It doesn't change things really. The chances anybody will ever notice a > problem are, as it is, pretty much non existnant. Changing it to be > 'long' doesn't make it any more correct than it is now, it just gives you > 64-bit safety instead of 32-bit safety (since there's no provisions > sizeof(long)==sizeof(void *)). I'm happy with 32-bit safety as it is, I > don't mind changing it to be a long in PHP 4.0, but I definitely don't > want to start playing with that sort of stuff in the production PHP 3.x > tree. I wasn't suggesting a change for PHP3. I was thinking ahead to PHP4. If there are no real performance issues, moving to a long, or even a long long in PHP4 would make the odds of hitting a problem here even smaller. -Rasmus -- 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

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