On Thu, 30 Jan 2014, Hannes Magnusson wrote:
> Now remember the fact I wanted everyone to realize and understand:
> >> I need people do also understand this little fact: This is how you
> >> will create an extension 2years from now. That compat.h header is
> >> as important as #include <php.h> Your extension is useless without
> >> it.
>
> Just because 5.6 is the "base versions" the extension support, you
> will still be using that compat header and workarounds because you, or
> anyone else, is not stupid enough to change all these lines of code
> for absolutely no gain.
>
> (PHP_NEED_STRSIZE_COMPAT ? "Os|al" : "OS|ai") is the way you will be
> passing arguments to zpp from now on.
Yes, and that is a whole lot worse than including a Unicode string
type—which introdcution would at least have given us real functionality.
cheers,
Derick
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