> Having written loads of stuff in PHP, I find myself having for the first
> time to generate binary data in memory - I actually need to build a native
> file for a drawing program in memory. The data consists mainly of lists of
> 32bit little endian integers - some signed and some unsigned. I've started
> the work, and am building the data up in a string variable. I know however
> that I am about to get bitten by numeric overflows.
>
> For example if I have a function create_thingy($param1,$param2) where
param1
> is an unsigned 32 bit int, and the top bit is set, then I suspect that php
> will probably represent the number as floating point, and I'll probably
lose
> some precision.
>
> Has anybody been here before and found a good mode of working in the
> unsigned 32bit arena?
BCMATH would work...
If you're already messing around with using strings, you might as well use
BCMATH.
You now know as much about BCMATH as I do...
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