Re: [RFC] 64 bit platform improvements for string length and integer

Hi Anatol, > > About zpp I've got a click - the compatibility with 5.x can be integrated > into zpp itself in 6.x. I mean look here > > > http://git.php.net/?p=php-src.git;a=blob;f=Zend/zend_API.c;hb=refs/heads/str_size_and_int64#l326 > - 'l' and 'L' was replaced with 'i' and 'I', but > nothing prevents to turn > those formats as aliases in 6.x. That way 'l' and 'i' and another pairs > will do the same thing, new implementations can use clean semantics, and > the old formats can be removed after 5.x EOL. This solution however won't > force the new semantic. > I agree with keeping old flags ('l', 'p', 's'...). I think that would be good to add range checks to zend_parse_arg_impl for these flags. If the casted value is bigger (LONG_MAX, INT_MAX...), then warning. It would be really helpful and simplify the migration for library wrappers where these checks needs to be usually done... Thanks Jakub