From:             shailesh_bavadekar at yahoo dot com
Operating system: 
PHP version:      5.1.4
PHP Bug Type:     *Programming Data Structures
Bug description:  PHP should support 64 bit long integers

Description:
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PHP should support 64 bit long data type. Currently
there are two choices for integer arithmetic -

* 32 bit signed integer and
* 64 bit float.

In some cases the translation between these types
is handled automatically but the behavior is not consistent.
e.g. integers operands are automatically converted to
float, but integers represented as strings are not.

The main problem is - even if integers are seamlessly
converted to float, that only extends the range to
2^53. So there is really no way to handle integer values
between 2^53 and 2^64.

gmp extension is an option of course, but it is cumbersome
to use.

The lack of 64 bit long support causes incorrect behavior
elsewhere in the language - e.g. PHP SOAP extension cannot
accurately translate xsd:long data type to PHP.



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Edit bug report at http://bugs.php.net/?id=38041&edit=1
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Try a CVS snapshot (PHP 4.4): 
http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=38041&r=trysnapshot44
Try a CVS snapshot (PHP 5.2): 
http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=38041&r=trysnapshot52
Try a CVS snapshot (PHP 6.0): 
http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=38041&r=trysnapshot60
Fixed in CVS:                 http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=38041&r=fixedcvs
Fixed in release:             
http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=38041&r=alreadyfixed
Need backtrace:               http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=38041&r=needtrace
Need Reproduce Script:        http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=38041&r=needscript
Try newer version:            http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=38041&r=oldversion
Not developer issue:          http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=38041&r=support
Expected behavior:            http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=38041&r=notwrong
Not enough info:              
http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=38041&r=notenoughinfo
Submitted twice:              
http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=38041&r=submittedtwice
register_globals:             http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=38041&r=globals
PHP 3 support discontinued:   http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=38041&r=php3
Daylight Savings:             http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=38041&r=dst
IIS Stability:                http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=38041&r=isapi
Install GNU Sed:              http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=38041&r=gnused
Floating point limitations:   http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=38041&r=float
No Zend Extensions:           http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=38041&r=nozend
MySQL Configuration Error:    http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=38041&r=mysqlcfg

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