Re: Large file support for PHP

hi, some non-php-dev comments in case they're helpful... On Monday 15 October 2007 12:13:50 am Wez Furlong wrote: > This bug has been open for a while: > http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=27792 > Having run into this issue recently, here's a patch (hopefully > attached, mail.app and list filters willing) against PHP 5.3 to > address it. using size_t/off_t is always good > This patch will promote to double the file sizes that overflow > LONG_MAX, which works transparently for my script. > Note that this only touches the obvious functions in the core; there > may be other extensions that need to behave similarly. why not just use SIZE_MAX, and not have to worry about anything bigger? I can't profess to fully understand what's going on, but it looks like the functions are being converted from returning a long to returning either a long or a double, and then the result is parsed as a string??? > The defines that I jam into CFLAGS are known to work in our other > projects on Linux, Solaris, FreeBSD and OSX. The other (weirder) > platforms might need some other adjustments to work correctly. "getconf LFS_CFLAGS", assuming "getconf" exists... sean

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