On Sat, Sep 11, 2004 at 03:22:27PM +0200, Ard Biesheuvel wrote: > Joe Orton wrote: > >GCC on IA64 does wierd things with this macro, though I think there's a > >GCC bug involved there too. This fixes the macro to have well-defined > >behaviour for all values of 'd', and avoids triggering the GCC bug on > >IA64 to boot (both PHP users on that platform will be happy): > > This probably has to do with the fact that on 64-bit systems, doubles > lack the accuracy to distinguish LONG_MAX from LONG_MAX +1. To be on the > safe side here, you might want to use >= LONG_MAX instead of > LONG_MAX, > or cast the other way around.
It actually was a GCC bug, in fact, one of our GCC developers tracked it down: http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2004-08/msg02654.html joe -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
