Re: 32 bit / 64 bit integer confusion

hi, On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 4:47 PM, Derick Rethans <derick@php.net> wrote: > On Fri, 10 Jun 2011, Hannes Landeholm wrote: > >> What are the reasoning behind this? I think the PHP integer size >> should be changed to always be 64 bit - independent of the platform. I >> have stumbled on this annoying inconsistency several times the last >> month. > > I agree that that should be the same. But sadly, Windows uses a > different integer size model than almost everything else modern. > Where Linux and Mac and other unices use 8 bytes for an "int", Windows > uses 4 bytes (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LP64#Specific_C-language_data_models). > Because PHP internally uses "int" for its integer type, on Windows > that's still only 32 bit. The sad part is not that windows uses a consistent type size across architecture but that linux and gcc considers that a type could be whatever the architecture uses. Hence why stdint.h was introduced and should be used instead of the long/int. > But yes, it would be awesome if PHP actually took care of this and uses > 64 bit ints on 64 bit processors. A type should be the same on all architecture, even more at the PHP script level. Cheers, -- Pierre @pierrejoye | http://blog.thepimp.net | http://www.libgd.org