Re: [RFC] Big Integer Support

Hi Dmitry, > On 15 Jan 2015, at 11:11, Dmitry Stogov <dmitry@zend.com> wrote: > > BTW: why not to wrap big integers into special IS_OBJECT? > It would keep everything working out of the box (without BIGINT), and would allow to eliminate > more than half of unnecessary changes. > > In the past we made similar decision for closures. In retrospect that might have been a good idea. Though objects can't quite do everything our primitive types can. To get bigints to work that way, you'd need to improve the support for objects a lot. You'd still need to update virtually every zval-accepting extension. The signature of is_numeric_string_ex would still have to change. You would need to make constants support objects, too. You'd still need to change a lot of things, unfortunately. At this stage, switching to using objects is probably a waste of time. Thanks. -- Andrea Faulds http://ajf.me/ > > Thanks. Dmitry. > >> On Thu, Jan 15, 2015 at 2:01 PM, Andrea Faulds <ajf@ajf.me> wrote: >> Hey Dmitry, >> >>> On 15 Jan 2015, at 07:56, Dmitry Stogov <dmitry@zend.com> wrote: >>> >>> ext/session and ext/json are required by most apps. >>> Actually I stopped attempts to build it when I saw compilation errors in ext/session. >>> >>> Thanks. Dmitry. >>