Re: [RFC] 64 bit improvements, open questions

On Wed, January 22, 2014 09:20, Anatol Belski wrote: > Hi, > > > as the discussion phase for this RFC nears to the finish and the patch > itself is huge, I'd like to use the last chance to discuss the open > questions and concerns. Here are once more the links to the RFC (with > several updates) and the porting guide > > https://wiki.php.net/rfc/size_t_and_int64 > > http://git.php.net/?p=php-src.git;a=blob;f=compat/PECL_PORTING;hb=refs/hea > ds/str_size_and_int64 > > The big open question from the previous discussion is how to handle > changed ZPP formats. The way I've suggested in the porting doc is using > ternary operator like (COMP ? "l" : "i"). Another way were to put the old > ZPP formats "lLsp" back and make them redundant to the new ones "iISP". > Both ways have their pro and contra, the second variant isn't done, but > can be done quickly. > > Also one big question from the RFC which haven't been addressed is the > handling of the stale SAPIs. While porting it turned out, that more than > 50% of SAPIs reference no more actively supported web servers, some of > them are even not available anymore, no packages in the current > distributions seem to exist, no chance to check if they even complaint > with PHP mainstream. The SAPIs ported so far - apache2handler, CGI, CLI, > embed, FPM, phpdbg. > > Please respond also if you have any other concerns about this RFC. > > > The voting phase is likely to be started on Sunday, January 22. > Sunday, January 26 - that's correct :) Regards Anatol