On Tuesday 16 October 2007 04:37:57 pm Wez Furlong wrote: > PHP's native integer type is long, how else are you going to relay > numbers longer than a long back to the script without rewriting the > engine to add additional integer types, which is a massive changeset?
okay, chalk this up to my IANAPHPD ignorance.
>
> Or just bump our API number(s) and "not worry about it", since the
> module loading code will refuse to load an incompatible module.
>
> PHP 5.3 is an ideal point to make this kind of change, as I've
> already stated.
the general impression that i got was that zend/php did not want to break
their abi because then they'd have to support an additional set of platforms
for the zend optimiser. but maybe that was just hearsay.
sean
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