> Really, you should thank Nikita, not me. He wrote the patch. ^^ He gets my bag of thanks for many things.
> Well, the patch is written for master. It could be back ported, but I don’t know how. > Also, even if there is a 5.7, it sounds like it will consist purely of bug fixes and E_DEPRECATED warnings. Backward-compatible feature additions won't harm 5.7 and probably be a good upgrade path to 7 but that's a discussion for some future time. Given that accepted intdiv rfc is targeted to 5.7 I thought it will be ok here as well.
