note 41978 modified in function.ibase-gen-id by abies

Question arose on php-dev: How does ibase_gen_id() handle 64bit values? Interbase 6/Firebird generators are always 64-bit signed integers (Firebird's BIGINT type), regardless of the platform the client is running. On 64-bit platforms, this will never require conversion as PHP's int type is 64 bits wide on those platforms. On 32-bit platforms, the generated value is converted to a string if it exceeds the limits of a 32-bit signed integer. (This behaviour is consistent with the ibase_fetch_*() functions, that will use strings to represent numerical values that cannot be represented accurately using native PHP numerical types.) [Edited by PHP/Interbase maintainer.] --was-- Question arose on php-dev: How does ibase_gen_id() handle 64bit values? On 64bit platforms a check is done whether the value fits into PHPs long value and if not, a string with the value and not an integer is returned. [Editor's note: Interbase 6/Firebird generators are always 64-bit signed integers, regardless of the platform the client is running. On 64-bit platforms, this will never require conversion as PHP's int type is 64 bits wide on those platforms. On 32-bit platforms, the generated value is converted to a string if it exceeds the limits of a 32-bit signed integer.] http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.ibase-gen-id.php