Re: LONGINT... ? to be or not to be?...

Hello, you should check the latest version of the manual: http://www.php.net/manual/en/language.types.integer.php more precisely and specifically the "integer overflow" section. I think, you should use the arbitrary precision integer extension. http://www.php.net/manual/en/ref.gmp.php hth ----- Original Message ----- From: Alexey Prohorenko <green@usa.dp.ua> To: <php-general@lists.php.net> Sent: Tuesday, August 28, 2001 8:47 PM Subject: [PHP] LONGINT... ? to be or not to be?... > Hello, > > I have one question. How can PHP work with longint (in C we call > them "unsigned long") variables? > F.e., I want to do next thing: > > 65536 & 4096 = 0 (this is right) > 65536 & 65536 = 65536 (again, everything is okay) > 196608 & 65536 = 65536 (perfect, it works great) > > but, > > 3221225472 & 1073741824 = 0 (this is wrong, right answer isn't 0 > but 2147483648) > > So, can anybody help me with this? Any suggestions? > > Thanks, anyway. Looking forward your answers. > Will check my mailbox every 5 minutes. :-) > > -- > green > [http://www.extrasy.net] > [http://www.unix-how-to.net] > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-general-unsubscribe@lists.php.net > For additional commands, e-mail: php-general-help@lists.php.net > To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net >