On 11/10/14 01:18, Andrea Faulds wrote:
>>> >> What you want is 64-bit data handling. This is arbitrary-bit data handling.
>>> >> It’s not a “wrong approach”.
>> >
>> > So BIGINT on 32 bit platforms will be different to BIGINT on 64 bit
>> > platforms? BIGINT is a fix length number not a variable one …
> “Bigints” typically refer to arbitrary-size integers, that is, their size is bounded only
> by the amount of RAM available.
>
> I don’t know what you think a “bigint” is, but it’s different to everyone else.
PLEASE rename the page name for this and stop using BIGINT for it ...
BIGINT is the SQL99-compliant 64-bit signed integer type
http://www.firebirdsql.org/refdocs/langrefupd25-bigint.html
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.1/static/datatype-numeric.html
http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.5/en/integer-types.html
BIGINT is very much an 8 byte data value which we have been struggling
with on PHP for some time. Now that it's available in 64bit builds, we
need a simple transparent way to maintain that in 32bit builds ...
If you are proposing BigInteger that is something else
http://docs.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/api/java/math/BigInteger.html
and
GMP already provides that. Miking it up with the BIGINT standard which
is something we DO need is the problem here ...
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