Re: [RFC] 64 bit improvements, open questions
On Wed, January 22, 2014 09:20, Anatol Belski wrote:
> Hi,
>
>
> as the discussion phase for this RFC nears to the finish and the patch
> itself is huge, I'd like to use the last chance to discuss the open
> questions and concerns. Here are once more the links to the RFC (with
> several updates) and the porting guide
>
> https://wiki.php.net/rfc/size_t_and_int64
> http://git.php.net/?p=php-src.git;a=blob;f=compat/PECL_PORTING;hb=refs/hea
> ds/str_size_and_int64
>
> The big open question from the previous discussion is how to handle
> changed ZPP formats. The way I've suggested in the porting doc is using
> ternary operator like (COMP ? "l" : "i"). Another way were to put the old
> ZPP formats "lLsp" back and make them redundant to the new ones "iISP".
> Both ways have their pro and contra, the second variant isn't done, but
> can be done quickly.
>
> Also one big question from the RFC which haven't been addressed is the
> handling of the stale SAPIs. While porting it turned out, that more than
> 50% of SAPIs reference no more actively supported web servers, some of
> them are even not available anymore, no packages in the current
> distributions seem to exist, no chance to check if they even complaint
> with PHP mainstream. The SAPIs ported so far - apache2handler, CGI, CLI,
> embed, FPM, phpdbg.
>
> Please respond also if you have any other concerns about this RFC.
>
>
> The voting phase is likely to be started on Sunday, January 22.
>
Sunday, January 26 - that's correct :)
Regards
Anatol
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