Re: Re: svn: /php/php-src/ branches/PHP_5_3/ext/date/php_date.c trunk/ext/date/php_date.c

On 1/31/2011 2:04 PM, Pierre Joye wrote: > On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 8:52 PM, William A. Rowe Jr. > <wrowe@rowe-clan.net> wrote: > >> Which I think we agree with, but you answer is a non sequitur, if you are >> defining the 'next right solution', why deploy the n-1 build environment? > > I did not refer to the next right solution but the current and actual > right solution, for PHP 5.3. We did not decide yet what to do with 5.3 > but as trunk builds just fine for 9 or 10, that's not a big deal yet. > I will post more on that in the next weeks. x64 support may also > affect the choice. But I fear that to make our code base x64 friendly > on windows (and consequently cleaner on other platforms) will require > way too much political debate like this one Political? No, what it will require is for all the dependent libraries to build and function properly on a 64P architecture; the vast majority of PHP's libraries are now 64LP or 64ILP safe, but there is still a ton of legacy code expecting void *vp = (void*)lval; and long lval = (long)vp sorts of foolishness to work :( That will be no small challenge.