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

> It doesn't change things really. The chances anybody will ever notice a
> problem are, as it is, pretty much non existnant. Changing it to be
> 'long' doesn't make it any more correct than it is now, it just gives you
> 64-bit safety instead of 32-bit safety (since there's no provisions
> sizeof(long)==sizeof(void *)). I'm happy with 32-bit safety as it is, I
> don't mind changing it to be a long in PHP 4.0, but I definitely don't
> want to start playing with that sort of stuff in the production PHP 3.x
> tree.

I wasn't suggesting a change for PHP3. I was thinking ahead to PHP4. If
there are no real performance issues, moving to a long, or even a long
long in PHP4 would make the odds of hitting a problem here even smaller.

-Rasmus 

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