Re: [PHP-DEV] PHP3 and 64-bit land From: Rasmus Lerdorf (rasmus <email protected>)
Date: 02/27/99

> There seem to be some open issues in some modules which assume pointers == 32
> bits wide == int. For example in mysql.c:
>
> int type,link;
> void *ptr;
>
> if (index_ptr->type != le_index_ptr) {
> RETURN_FALSE;
> }
> link = (int) index_ptr->ptr;
> ptr = php3_list_find(link,&type);
>
> I'll commit some changes, but people, please bear in mind that a pointer does
> not necessarily fit into an int. It would be sad, if we would get bug reports
> related to bad programming behaviour.

Ouch. Never noticed that. Can Purify or some other tool check for these?

-Rasmus 

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