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

Of course, we are not going to drop 32-bit support :) This patch affects only PHP on 64-bit systems. Thanks. Dmitry. On Thu, Jan 23, 2014 at 2:56 PM, Lester Caine <lester@lsces.co.uk> wrote: > Pierre Joye wrote: > >> I think we can clear these questions during the vote phases, as options. >> >> If anyone has an idea how to keep the advantage brought by the >> renaming (compile checks, clarity, code correctness) without actually >> doing the renaming in extensions, please fire it:) >> > > Is this still being put forward for a PHP5.x build? Surely this along with > a tidy up on base modules that support it would be much better used as a > base for a new PHP6 plan? Extensions that do not support it can also be > left out and we have a clean demarcation. > > One thing I would ask is just what 32bit platforms will remain supported. > While desktop machines are generally 64bit these days, tablet and mobile > devices do still tend to be 32bit. The ITX based systems I'm working with > are still 32bit and while they do tend to run as clients to bigger servers, > some support their own PHP platform. I already have to support different > integer sizes anyway and assuming PHP is 32bit simplifies things but I'm a > little unsure how a change to direct support for 64bit might affect that > split? > > -- > Lester Caine - G8HFL > ----------------------------- > Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact > L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk > EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com/ > Model Engineers Digital Workshop - http://medw.co.uk > Rainbow Digital Media - http://rainbowdigitalmedia.co.uk > > > -- > PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > >