Re: php id string

"Jess Portnoy" <jess@zend.com> wrote in message news:4B1266E0.7010405@zend.com... > Perhaps it would be wise to display both the build arch and the current > arch on which its running? > I used the Darwin/MAC universal build example before but even on Windows > and *nix as well when you think about it, one can run a 32bit binary on a > 64bit OS, usually provided the stack below [Apache, etc] is also 32 bit. > So, unlike the PHP_COMPILER_ID check, which makes sense as the various VCs > are declared as not quite compatible, I think in the case of different > archs this would be a mistake, just displaying the gathered arch info I > can see no harm in though... > > May the source be with you, > Best regards, > Jess Portnoy > > > > Pierre Joye wrote: >> hi, >> >> This info is available in phpinfo on windows and I would like to add >> it in the "php -v" output as well. I'm not sure how we can safely rely >> on this info on other platforms but that's definitively something we >> should try to do. >> >> Cheers, >> On Sun, Nov 29, 2009 at 11:29 AM, jvlad <dmda@yandex.ru> wrote: >> >>> Hi all, >>> >>> Starting with version 5.3 php checks id string when it loads the >>> extensions >>> to match its own one and it also shows this string in PHP Extension >>> Build >>> line of phpinfo(). That's great. This line contains api#, threadsafe, >>> and >>> compiler. So it's almost all important thigs to check and make sure that >>> a >>> particular module is binary-compatible with php core. All things, except >>> just one, the CPU. It's known that Windows runs on many CPUs, Solaris >>> runs >>> fine under sparc, sparc64, x86, and x86_64. Needless to mention linux >>> and >>> *bsd systems (I guess they are running on everything). Why not to add >>> what >>> phpinfo() shows in Architecture, to the id string? Are there any reasons >>> not >>> to do this? >>> >>> -jvlad >>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List >>> To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php >>> >>> >>> Jess, Current platform plays no role. If it can't run a particular php build, there is nothing to care of. What I do care of is ABA which depends on the compile-time arch and nothing else. It's my understanding that id-string is a part of the technology to make sure that extensions are compatible with core. -jvlad