Re: Year 2038 issue

On 16.06.25 17:21, Rob Landers wrote:

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.

Dropping 32bit builds entirely is an option I would support as well. Would you be able to help me writing an RFC for it as I don't have enough knowledge of PHP internals to know where 32bit build is going to be problematic there as well?

— Rob