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

On Thu, 30 Jan 2014, Hannes Magnusson wrote: > Now remember the fact I wanted everyone to realize and understand: > >> I need people do also understand this little fact: This is how you > >> will create an extension 2years from now. That compat.h header is > >> as important as #include <php.h> Your extension is useless without > >> it. > > Just because 5.6 is the "base versions" the extension support, you > will still be using that compat header and workarounds because you, or > anyone else, is not stupid enough to change all these lines of code > for absolutely no gain. > > (PHP_NEED_STRSIZE_COMPAT ? "Os|al" : "OS|ai") is the way you will be > passing arguments to zpp from now on. Yes, and that is a whole lot worse than including a Unicode string type—which introdcution would at least have given us real functionality. cheers, Derick -- http://derickrethans.nl | http://xdebug.org Like Xdebug? Consider a donation: http://xdebug.org/donate.php twitter: @derickr and @xdebug Posted with an email client that doesn't mangle email: alpine