2013/6/4 Ivan Enderlin @ Hoa <ivan.ender...@hoa-project.net> > > On 04/06/13 12:08, Pierre Joye wrote: > >> On Tue, Jun 4, 2013 at 10:41 AM, Ivan Enderlin @ Hoa >> <ivan.ender...@hoa-project.net**> wrote: >> >>> Hey :-), >>> >>> >>> On 02/06/13 08:52, Johannes Schlüter wrote: >>> >>>> It would be a *gigantic* patch, but the userland effects should be >>>>> minimal (the only changes would be supporting longer strings, and >>>>> consistent 64 >>>>> bit int support). The performance considerations should be minimal for >>>>> non-legacy code (as both would still be using native data types)... >>>>> >>>> History shows that such gigantic patches are often not finished and done >>>> as people underestimate the size of PHP and the fact that all etensions >>>> have >>>> to be checked which for this case means checking each external lib for >>>> their >>>> correct type for all their functions etc ... but I don't wan to stop >>>> you, >>>> I'm happy if you do this :-) (while I'm also happy about everybody >>>> spending >>>> time on fixing bugs instead of adding such high-risk changes ;-)) >>>> >>> Is it possible to use a static C analyzer here? It could help a lot. I >>> think >>> about Frama-C [1], Pork [2] (now included in Oink [3]) or Clang Static >>> Analyser [4] to name a few. A more complete list can be found in [5]. >>> >> We do it using Visual C++ static analyzer, which is an excellent tool >> for this kind of issue, almost on all commits. As soon as we have a >> fork for these changes I will add it so we can get regular updates. >> > Excellent!
Since Anthony is sadly gone, is there still something going on in this direction? Just fallen into a bug related to this with future DateTimes.... after 2038-01-19 03:14:07