Hi Marc, This is an unusual follow-up from me.
Particularly on 32-bit systems, it would be useful to have a ‘u’ zend_parse_parameters specifier for an unsigned integer. Unfortunately, again, I don’t think native unsigned integers (IS_ULONG) will get into PHP. But it looks like the bigint RFC probably will, and here’s the opportunity. With the bigint RFC, we could add a ‘u’ specifier. You’d get a native ulong (zpp would convert from long or bigint), and could easily produce a long/bigint from your ulong if you need to return one (add RETURN_ULONG which implicitly converts?). Now, it’s not as fast as a native IS_ULONG type would be, but we could still do things like properly support file sizes in the 2GB-4GB range on 32-bit, at least. :) What do you think? -- Andrea Faulds http://ajf.me/ -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
