Re: C++ Extensions
| From: | Sara Golemon | Date: | Thu, 20 Aug 2015 16:49:16 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: C++ Extensions | ||
| References: | 1 2 | Groups: | php.internals |
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On Wed, Aug 19, 2015 at 1:10 PM, Stanislav Malyshev <smalyshev@gmail.com> wrote:
>> A) Adding those defines prior to including stdint.h
>> B) Expecting C++ ext devs to define those before including php.h
>> C) Modifying zend_long.h to use things like
>> std::numeric_limits<int64_t>() when __cplusplus is defined
>>
>> A may (potentially) have unexpected side-effects
>> B has precedent (see ext/intl/config.m4)
>> C makes the ifdef block that's already there notably more complex
>
> I'd rather have everything solved by php.h than having magic
> incantations that one has to do prior to it. I would prefer A unless
> there's really something wrong with it that. Given that these macros are
> on their way out anyway:
> https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=15366
> I'm not sure it's that dangerous to define them in the meantime.
>
I agree! :) Though I didn't realize they were deprecated anyway.
Second question, is it too late to put it in 7.0.0?
Happy enough to put it behind #ifdef __cplusplus to limit the exposed
surface area.
-Sara