Fw: Bumping PHP to support 8byte integers

From:	Jeroen van Wolffelaar	Date:	Sun, 23 Sep 2001 19:14:10 +0000
Subject:	Fw: Bumping PHP to support 8byte integers
Groups:	php.dev
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Hi,

For a scripting language, integers should IMHO be bounded by a number that
will reasonally not be bound by numbers that will be used in normal scripts.

That is currently not the case, 4 bytes are insufficient IMHO. Why not make
sure PHP uses 8 bytes at least? Or are there platforms not supporting 8byte
integers? I believe most popular do... (at least linux on i586 and i686,
windows and Solaris (I tested SunOS 5.6))

For implementation, I think that we should introduce p_int and p_float
typedefs for php-integer and php-float anyway, and changing THAT isn't a
problem.

About preformance/memory, I think that's not an issue. Making strings
unicode will be much more heavy for PHP...

--Jeroen



   

Thread (10 messages)

• Jeroen van WolffelaarSun, 23 Sep 2001 19:14:10 +0000
  • (Stig Sæther Bakken)Sun, 23 Sep 2001 20:04:38 +0000
    • mlwmohawk at mohawksoft dot comSun, 23 Sep 2001 20:49:41 +0000
      • Jeroen van WolffelaarSun, 23 Sep 2001 20:53:57 +0000
        • mlwmohawk at mohawksoft dot comMon, 24 Sep 2001 00:47:44 +0000
          • Jeroen van WolffelaarMon, 24 Sep 2001 07:13:35 +0000Re: [Zend Engine 2] Re: [PHP-DEV] Fw: Bumping PHP to support 8byteintegers
            • Markus FischerMon, 24 Sep 2001 12:12:11 +0000Re: Re: [Zend Engine 2] Re: [PHP-DEV] Fw: Bumping PHP to support 8byte integers
              • Jeroen van WolffelaarMon, 24 Sep 2001 12:21:13 +0000Re: [Zend Engine 2] Re: [PHP-DEV] Re: [Zend Engine 2] Re: [PHP-DEV]Fw: Bumping PHP to support 8byte integers
            • Sascha SchumannMon, 24 Sep 2001 12:35:12 +0000
              • Jeroen van WolffelaarMon, 24 Sep 2001 19:45:34 +0000