Lester Caine wrote:
An interesting little question has popped up.
How big is an integer?
Firebird uses BIGINT or INT_64 for generator values, and the new ibase_gen_id in PHP5 returns that value as an integer.
Has any thought been given to managing 64bit field values in PHP5?
AFAIK ext/mysqli returns string in case the int value is too big to fit into 32 bits.
After that it's up to the user to decide what to do -> cast to float or use bcmath .
That will probably work for returning field values in a result set, the particular problem I am looking at is a function that is defined as returning an integer, but which could potentially contain a 64 bit value.
Is any work being done on handling THAT potential time bomb?
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