Re: 5.NEXT Integer and String type modifications

On Tue, Jun 4, 2013 at 10:41 AM, Ivan Enderlin @ Hoa <ivan.enderlin@hoa-project.net> wrote: > Hey :-), > > > On 02/06/13 08:52, Johannes Schlüter wrote: >>> >>> It would be a *gigantic* patch, but the userland effects should be >>> minimal (the only changes would be supporting longer strings, and >>> consistent 64 >>> bit int support). The performance considerations should be minimal for >>> non-legacy code (as both would still be using native data types)... >> >> History shows that such gigantic patches are often not finished and done >> as people underestimate the size of PHP and the fact that all etensions have >> to be checked which for this case means checking each external lib for their >> correct type for all their functions etc ... but I don't wan to stop you, >> I'm happy if you do this :-) (while I'm also happy about everybody spending >> time on fixing bugs instead of adding such high-risk changes ;-)) > > Is it possible to use a static C analyzer here? It could help a lot. I think > about Frama-C [1], Pork [2] (now included in Oink [3]) or Clang Static > Analyser [4] to name a few. A more complete list can be found in [5]. We do it using Visual C++ static analyzer, which is an excellent tool for this kind of issue, almost on all commits. As soon as we have a fork for these changes I will add it so we can get regular updates. -- Pierre @pierrejoye | http://www.libgd.org