Hi, On Fri, December 20, 2013 09:20, Anatol Belski wrote: > Hi, > > > I'm writing in the first place to give an update on the patch status. > Just > to remind - it's a matter of implementing size_t for string sizes and > getting rid of 'long' in favour of platform dependent 64 bit integer. The > patch is now close to finish the first big porting step. ZE and other > very core parts are revamped in multiple circles and do now work well in > the patch. Also the most important and wide used core extensions and SAPIs > are ported. The progress page is reachable under > https://wiki.php.net/rfc/string-size_t/progress , the RFC draft is linked > from there. The work is of course still in progress. > > Regarding to my observations, there are some half dead or unsupported > SAPIs and extensions currently in the core. Just to name some for SAPIs - > phttpd, aolserver. > > Another observation is - there are 64 bit issues regarding dependency > libraries. Though that was an open secret right at the start, many of those > regarding 64 vs 32 bit integers do already persist in the 64 bit > Linux/Unix PHP builds. > > > Some steps are necessary to reach the next stage > > > - strong code reviews > - more testing > - helping hands on porting > > > In the light of the above, I would sincerely invite the community to > participate on reviews, testing and further fixes. From the side of core > devs, it would rock to have fixes for SAPIs and extensions rarely > supported, especially the sapi/fpm wasn't ported yet. As well the ported > stuff possibly (or better to say surely) has something overseen. Any > improvement ideas are appreciated of course. > > On the part of people without C knowledge - testing with some real PHP > apps would be already a great help. The usage is anyway interesting for > needs like large strings/uploads, LFS, etc. Particular on Windows 64 bit > integers/array indexes and big memory limit are enjoyable. Even running > just the PHPTs on your machine were great. To compile yourself, no > additional configure options are needed anymore. Even testing just one > extension would help to chase down possible side effects and bugs. Not to > forget, that the 32 bit builds of that branch should be tested, too. > automated Windows builds for this branch are now back and running, please fetch the latest under http://windows.php.net/downloads/snaps/str_size_and_int64/ Cheers Anatol -- PHP Windows Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
