Re: Year 2038 issue

On Mon, Jun 16, 2025, at 16:54, Alexandru Pătrănescu wrote: > > On Mon, Jun 16, 2025 at 4:03 PM Marc Bennewitz <marc@mabe.berlin> wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> It's 12.5 years only until the timestamps in PHP on 32bit will not work >> as expected anymore. >> > > Hi, > > I think that maybe we can already deprecate supporting 32 bit builds. > And, maybe with PHP 9, or PHP 10, or with a future version that might exist in about 6/7 years, > completely drop 32 bits support. > > As far as I checked a bit, all major OSs where PHP could run already dropped or will drop > support for 32 bits builds. > I expect that at some point even the linux kernel will drop support. > > The impacted runtimes will probably be very low. > > -- > Alex > 100% agree. We are already running out of space on some bitmasks (there are a couple with exactly one bit left, or even none in the case of GC flags) for 32 bit support. — Rob