[PHP-DEV] Re: [PHP4BETA] Re: PHP 4.0 Bug #2261 Updated: Binary operators fail on args > 2G From: Wessel Dankers (wsl <email protected>)
Date: 09/10/99

oi!

> >Another approach would be to switch to 64 bit math altogether. MySQL already
> >does this (and has proper support for unsigned integers). Compared to the
> >usual overhead of scripted languages I think the performance would not
> >suffer very much. Would it be hard to convince the compilation procedure of
> >MySQL that it's working on a 64-bit architecture (even if it's not)?
   ^^^^^
I meant php4 there, of course.
 
> I think this sounds interesting. How would you suggest to do it?

Well you said in reply to my "bug"-report that the capacity for "long" on
*my* platform was exceeded. I assume that the configure script checks this
length somewhere and/or that the Zend code has proper typedefs for it.
I could look into it myself if no one else can be bothered with it =)

Regards, 

--
Wessel Dankers, who is not on this list and would appreciate a Cc: of any
replies =)

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