Re: [PHP] bigger than 32 bit int (and signed!) From: Richard Lynch (richard <email protected>)
Date: 12/29/00

You could buy a 64-bit computer :-)

Actually, that's not all in jest -- PHP keeps things simple, and uses the
builtin datatypes of C which are hardware-based for your INT size. So if
you*had* a 64-bit machine, PHP would be giving you 64-bit integers.

I don't think the Developers are going to rush to add a lot of custom code
for 64-bit support when they know that in a few years the hardware will do
that automatically... But that's just a guess.

This would probably better addressed by reading the TODO list to see if
64-bit support is there, and then hanging out on PHP-DEV list and asking
around there. (Check the archives first, of course)

----- Original Message -----
From: jeremy brand <jeremy <email protected>>
Newsgroups: php.general
Sent: Thursday, December 28, 2000 3:03 PM
Subject: [PHP] bigger than 32 bit int (and signed!)

> Are there plans to do double precision numbers in PHP? The reason I
> ask is that I use MySQL a lot, and they support INT:32 bits (signed
> and not) and also BIGINT: 64 bits (signed and not).
>
> It would be really nice to have larger number support in PHP. BC math
> is a nice hack (but limited to what you can do), but it would be truly
> nice to have large and unsigned numbers in PHP.
>
> <sarcasm>
> Doesn't it just make you jealous that MySQL can do it but PHP can't?
> </sarcasm>
>
> Just my $0.05. Let me know if you need more...
>
> Jeremy
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