Re: returning an unsigned long from RETURN_*
| From: | derick@php.net | Date: | Sat, 19 May 2001 10:02:27 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: returning an unsigned long from RETURN_* | ||
| References: | 1 | Groups: | php.dev |
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On Sat, 19 May 2001, Faisal Nasim wrote:
> Hi,
>
> How do you return an unsigned long value from RETURN_LONG?
> I need to return a value as big as 4294967295 which a 'long'
> cannot hold, setting return_vale -> type = IS_LONG and
> value.lval to the number doesn't help as lval is a 'long' and not
> unsigned long.
>
> Maybe I should return it as a string?
As PHP only supports unsigned longs, that would be the only option.
regards,
Derick
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